A Single Second · AFI

88 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 2:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
2:26
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-10, 12 and 14, and 5 more places -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
A SINGLE SECOND · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 11 and 26 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 5-7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 8 sections: 46 keep time, 32 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-26.

CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART Q
PART M
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGMQNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Single Second?

145 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 A Single Second hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 2:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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 A Single Second?

12 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 11 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED
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