2nd Sucks · A Day To Remember

84 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:24 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
2:24
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-14 and 17-19, and 3 more places -- 21.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
2ND SUCKS · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 15, 16, 23, 24, 28, 40 and 13 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 52-55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 10 sections: 36 keep time, 19 are fills, 15 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-14.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S8
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGBS8S1T+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 2nd Sucks?

140 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 2nd Sucks hard to play on drums?

48 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 2:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 2nd Sucks?

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 15, 16, 23, 24, 28, 40 and 13 more.

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