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Sign Of The Times · Europe

EXERCISE 1 OF 25
Groove D -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
4 groovesDS1IS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sign Of The Times on drums

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.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

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

silence through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-66, silence through bars 67-70 and hi-hat through bars 71-90.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Sign Of The Times -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-62 -- 9 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED