And I · Box Car Racer

161 bars at 208 BPM -- fast, and 3:06 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
208 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 37-39, 41-43 and 45-47, and 7 more places -- 19.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 208 BPM
AND I · BARS 37-38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 32, 36, 40, 56, 64, 68 and 14 more.

LOOP · 208 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 208 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 208 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 208 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

161 bars across 10 sections: 125 keep time, 20 are fills, 3 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-23.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesHLAQN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is And I?

208 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 And I hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 And I?

6 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 32, 36, 40, 56, 64, 68 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED
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