Sign Of The Times · Europe

90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 4:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 15-17 and 19-21, and 20 more places -- 55.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 85 BPM
SIGN OF THE TIMES · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 14, 24, 32, 42, 58, 70 and 4 more.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 6 sections: 63 keep time, 11 are fills, 1 is a stop and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-23.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
4 groovesDS1IS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sign Of The Times?

85 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 Sign Of The Times hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Sign Of The Times?

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 14, 24, 32, 42, 58, 70 and 4 more.

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