And The Hero Will Drown · Story Of The Year

159 bars at 201 BPM -- fast, and 3:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
201 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20, 22-24 and 28, and 9 more places -- 28% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 201 BPM
AND THE HERO WILL DROWN · BAR 40
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 10, 34, 55, 56, 62, 96 and 7 more.

LOOP · 201 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 201 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 201 BPM
BARS 55-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 201 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

159 bars across 16 sections: 123 keep time, 14 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 121-131.

PART B
PART H
PART J
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART Z
PART AD
CHORUS 4
PART T
OUTRO 2
10 groovesGBHTZ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is And The Hero Will Drown?

201 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 The Hero Will Drown hard to play on drums?

58 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 And The Hero Will Drown?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 10, 34, 55, 56, 62, 96 and 7 more.

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