By My Side · Interrupters

108 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:24 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
2:24
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 16-17 and 20-27, and 3 more places -- 23.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BY MY SIDE · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 12, 28, 32, 36, 56 and 5 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 10 sections: 54 keep time, 11 are fills, 30 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-27.

PART S2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART H
PART O
9 groovesFIHS2O+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is By My Side?

180 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 By My Side hard to play on drums?

45 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 2:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 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 By My Side?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 12, 28, 32, 36, 56 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
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