Tragedy - 1979 · Bee Gees

151 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 5:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
5:05
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 87% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-11, 21-32 and 35-59, and 5 more places -- 86.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 118 BPM
TRAGEDY - 1979 · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

151 bars across 6 sections: 147 keep time and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-106.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
4 groovesACBS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tragedy - 1979?

118 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 Tragedy - 1979 hard to play on drums?

47 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 5:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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