12/23/98 · Poison The Well

105 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 2:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
2:08
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 65-67, 69-71 and 73, and 6 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 195 BPM
12/23/98 · BARS 65-66
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 2, 8, 12, 16, 20 and 26 more.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 8 sections: 58 keep time, 35 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 57-62.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART U
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDYIAGU+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 12/23/98?

195 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is 12/23/98 hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 2:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in 12/23/98?

14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 2, 8, 12, 16, 20 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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