Dedicated · Parkway Drive

140 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:07 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 15-17 and 19-21, and 7 more places -- 21.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
DEDICATED · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 26, 33, 34, 42, 50, 54 and 10 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 33-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 14 sections: 94 keep time, 16 are fills, 6 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-21.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART H
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART K
PART P
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesBHKCA+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dedicated?

180 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 Dedicated hard to play on drums?

55 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?

140 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Dedicated?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 26, 33, 34, 42, 50, 54 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED
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