6 To 8 · AFI

76 bars, 4:10, at 73 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

PunkMetalcore / HardcoreUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
73 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 29-35, 45-51 and 61-66 -- 30.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 73 BPM
6 TO 8 · BARS 29-30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 36, 52 and 2 more.

LOOP · 73 BPM
BARS 13-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 73 BPM
BARS 67-68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 11 sections: 45 keep time, 8 are fills, 3 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-27.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART A
PART S4
VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE 2
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGEKS4A+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 6 To 8?

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

Is 6 To 8 hard to play on drums?

56 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 6 To 8?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 36, 52 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED
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