21 pilots cover · Means to an End

150 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 5:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
5:39
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50, 52-53 and 56-57, and 3 more places -- 7.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 114 BPM
21 PILOTS COVER · BAR 53
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 40 more.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

150 bars across 17 sections: 66 keep time, 46 are fills, 7 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 52-69.

PART A
PART O
PART S
PART X
PART AD
PART AN
PART AS
OUTRO
BREAK 5
17 groovesAUAADANS17+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 21 pilots cover?

114 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 21 pilots cover hard to play on drums?

64 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 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 5:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 21 pilots cover?

11 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED
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