Sign of the Times · Harry Styles

66 bars, 4:24, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

PopUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-8, 10 and 26, and 7 more places -- 25.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 60 BPM
SIGN OF THE TIMES · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 29 and 16 more.

LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

66 bars across 5 sections: 34 keep time, 22 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-28.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDGS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sign of the Times?

60 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Sign of the Times hard to play on drums?

42 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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?

14 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 29 and 16 more.

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