And I Told Them I Invented Times New Roman · Dance Gavin Dance

199 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 4:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / Indie150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
199
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-6, 9-11 and 13-14, and 5 more places -- 9.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 168 BPM
AND I TOLD THEM I INVENTED TIMES NEW ROMAN · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 7, 8, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 34 more.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BARS 15-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 24 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77
LOOP · 168 BPM
BARS 107-108 · LANDS ON BAR 109 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

199 bars across 14 sections: 132 keep time, 40 are fills, 9 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 86-106.

CHORUS
PART O
PART S
PART Y
PART AB
PART S7
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesAABAYAPY+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is And I Told Them I Invented Times New Roman?

168 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 Told Them I Invented Times New Roman hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

199 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 19 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 And I Told Them I Invented Times New Roman?

10 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 7, 8, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 199 BARS ANALYSED
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