Congested · Apocalypse Hoboken

107 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:16 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Punk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
2:16
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-28, 30-36 and 56-62, and 3 more places -- 40% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 190 BPM
CONGESTED · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 7, 11, 15, 17, 21, 29 and 10 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 9 sections: 66 keep time, 16 are fills, 12 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 81-87.

PART B
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJGQBE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Congested?

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 Congested hard to play on drums?

51 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 2:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 6 sittings, about 30 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 Congested?

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 7, 11, 15, 17, 21, 29 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED
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