All Systems Go · Box Car Racer

116 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-31, 33-34 and 61-63, and 7 more places -- 20.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
ALL SYSTEMS GO · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 12, 20, 28 and 27 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 9 sections: 63 keep time, 33 are fills, 3 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 51-58.

CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART Q
PART J
5 groovesBJQS1S8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is All Systems Go?

150 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 All Systems Go hard to play on drums?

62 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 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 Systems Go?

10 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 12, 20, 28 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
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