Date With Destiny · Pennywise

133 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 2:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
87/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-11, 14-15 and 18-19, and 18 more places -- 29.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 185 BPM
DATE WITH DESTINY · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 5, 8, 9, 17, 25, 33 and 18 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 11 sections: 87 keep time, 25 are fills, 3 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-32.

PART B
PART G
CHORUS
PART F
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART B
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
4 groovesKFBGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Date With Destiny?

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 Date With Destiny hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 12 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Date With Destiny?

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 5, 8, 9, 17, 25, 33 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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