351 · State of Denial

89 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 2:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
2:17
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-15, 18-23 and 42-47, and 1 more place -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 156 BPM
351 · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 17, 25, 49 and 57.

LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 7 sections: 71 keep time, 5 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 75-89.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEMDCK+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 351?

156 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 351 hard to play on drums?

61 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 2:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in 351?

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 17, 25, 49 and 57.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED
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