Celebration Song · Unwritten Law

159 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:26 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-6, 13-15 and 33-44, and 9 more places -- 44.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 185 BPM
CELEBRATION SONG · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 24, 28, 64, 68, 102, 103 and 3 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 102-104 · LANDS ON BAR 105 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 106 · LANDS ON BAR 107
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 110 · LANDS ON BAR 111
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

159 bars across 11 sections: 116 keep time, 9 are fills, 16 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-44.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART E
PART K
OUTRO
5 groovesAFEKS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Celebration Song?

185 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 Celebration Song hard to play on drums?

52 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 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 Celebration Song?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 24, 28, 64, 68, 102, 103 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED
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