Things Have Changed · Bob Dylan

163 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 5:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
5:07
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 98% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-44, 46-60 and 62-108, and 2 more places -- 97.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 127 BPM
THINGS HAVE CHANGED · BAR 2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

163 bars across 2 sections: 162 keep time and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-163.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Things Have Changed?

127 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 Things Have Changed hard to play on drums?

45 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 5:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED
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