A 1000 Papercuts (is a Bittersweet feeling) · Nameless 272

171 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 3:47 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 12 more places -- 34.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 176 BPM
A 1000 PAPERCUTS (IS A BITTERSWEET FEELING) · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 24, 57, 65, 73, 89, 115 and 3 more.

LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

175 bars across 12 sections: 127 keep time, 9 are fills, 15 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-20.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART N
PART S9
PART T
OUTRO
7 groovesANHLT+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A 1000 Papercuts (is a Bittersweet feeling)?

176 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 A 1000 Papercuts (is a Bittersweet feeling) hard to play on drums?

59 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 A 1000 Papercuts (is a Bittersweet feeling)?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 24, 57, 65, 73, 89, 115 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED
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