All Messed Up · Sum 41

128 bars at 187 BPM -- fast, and 2:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
187 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 15, and 18 more places -- 16.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 187 BPM
ALL MESSED UP · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 4, 9, 10, 18, 19, 25 and 20 more.

LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 187 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 13 sections: 76 keep time, 26 are fills and 6 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 61-73.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART U
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFCPAU+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is All Messed Up?

187 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 All Messed Up hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 All Messed Up?

11 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 4, 9, 10, 18, 19, 25 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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