Words (Between the Lines of Age) · Neil Young

136 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 65 BPM, 6:37 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

RockCountry / FolkUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
6:37
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 4 more places -- 7.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 65 BPM
WORDS (BETWEEN THE LINES OF AGE) · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 64, 65, 66 and 92.

LOOP · 65 BPM
BARS 64-66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 12 sections: 111 keep time, 4 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 46-63.

PART B
PART C
PART E
PART G
PART B
CHORUS
PART AT
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesKBBKCAT+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Words (Between the Lines of Age)?

65 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Words (Between the Lines of Age) hard to play on drums?

59 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 6:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Words (Between the Lines of Age)?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 64, 65, 66 and 92.

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