American River · Destroy Boys

110 bars at 184 BPM -- fast, and 2:24 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
2:24
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 29-35 and 61-63, and 3 more places -- 29.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 184 BPM
AMERICAN RIVER · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 12, 20, 28, 36, 44, 52 and 16 more.

LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 11 sections: 72 keep time, 22 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-11.

PART A
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART R
CHORUS 4
8 groovesCJRAE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is American River?

184 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 American River hard to play on drums?

45 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 2:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 American River?

15 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 12, 20, 28, 36, 44, 52 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED
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