This Time · INXS

101 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 2:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 86% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-55, 57-59 and 61-66, and 1 more place -- 85.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 138 BPM
THIS TIME · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 56 and 60.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 5 sections: 84 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-55.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesCS1FFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is This Time?

138 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 This Time 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in This Time?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 56 and 60.

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