Asking For It (drum) · Shinedown

121 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 2:56 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-29, 31-33 and 35-38, and 12 more places -- 46.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 165 BPM
ASKING FOR IT (DRUM) · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 57, 58, 59, 60, 72, 80 and 5 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 57-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 11 sections: 82 keep time, 11 are fills, 4 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-38.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCBS1EA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Asking For It (drum)?

165 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 Asking For It (drum) hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Asking For It (drum)?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 57, 58, 59, 60, 72, 80 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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