Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five · Paul McCartney & Wings

157 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 5:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
5:18
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-10, 14 and 19, and 7 more places -- 14.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 118 BPM
NINETEEN HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FIVE · BAR 61
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 20, 37, 38, 39, 40, 44 and 13 more.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 118 BPM
BARS 37-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 118 BPM
BARS 56-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

157 bars across 17 sections: 105 keep time, 19 are fills, 2 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 128-148.

CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART S9
CHORUS 3
PART G
PART J
PART S
OUTRO
13 groovesESJGAH+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five?

118 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 5:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five?

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 20, 37, 38, 39, 40, 44 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED
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