Adrenaline · Shinedown

135 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:23 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29, 31 and 33-37, and 15 more places -- 36.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 160 BPM
ADRENALINE · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 20, 28, 32, 40, 46, 54 and 22 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 11 sections: 83 keep time, 28 are fills, 12 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 117-125.

PART A
PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesHACFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Adrenaline?

160 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 Adrenaline 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Adrenaline?

7 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 20, 28, 32, 40, 46, 54 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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