Calvary Drive · Yellowcard

124 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:36 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-32, 34-36 and 38, and 7 more places -- 30.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 190 BPM
CALVARY DRIVE · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 33, 39, 77, 85, 89, 92 and 7 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 85 · LANDS ON BAR 86
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 92-93 · LANDS ON BAR 94 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 13 sections: 51 keep time, 13 are fills, 34 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-62.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART S10
OUTRO
9 groovesFCJS10S1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Calvary Drive?

190 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 Calvary Drive 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 Calvary Drive?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 33, 39, 77, 85, 89, 92 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
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