Bang The Doldrums · Fall Out Boy

111 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 22-28 and 30-36, and 8 more places -- 48.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BANG THE DOLDRUMS · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 29, 37, 45 and 8 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 12 sections: 42 keep time, 14 are fills and 47 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-16.

CHORUS
PART D
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART J
CHORUS 4
PART R
OUTRO
6 groovesBGDJR+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bang The Doldrums?

128 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Bang The Doldrums hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 Bang The Doldrums?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 29, 37, 45 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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