Pride (Times Are Changing) · Madball

86 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcorePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
2:18
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 26 more places -- 33.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 150 BPM
PRIDE (TIMES ARE CHANGING) · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 4 sections: 80 keep time and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-58.

PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
4 groovesEGADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pride (Times Are Changing)?

150 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 Pride (Times Are Changing) hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 2:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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