Check Yes Juliet · We The Kings

152 bars at 166 BPM -- fast, and 3:40 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
166 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-39, 42-48 and 74-79, and 4 more places -- 31% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 166 BPM
CHECK YES JULIET · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 40, 80, 112 and 128.

LOOP · 166 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 11 sections: 98 keep time, 4 are fills, 31 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-30.

PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFEBIH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Check Yes Juliet?

166 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 Check Yes Juliet hard to play on drums?

49 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Check Yes Juliet?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 40, 80, 112 and 128.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED
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