← SONGS

Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five · Paul McCartney & Wings

EXERCISE 24 OF 52
Groove S -- Part S
104 / 157 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART S, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five on drums

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.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
5:18
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-46, silence through bars 47-55, kick and crashes through bars 56-58, hi-hat through bars 59-75 and silence through bars 76-82, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    61
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|
HF |x---------------|
Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- E, J -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 20-128 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Bars 38-47 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Bars 56-127 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

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