Defend You · Silverstein

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
89/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-20, 23 and 37-38, and 6 more places -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
DEFEND YOU · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 12, 21, 30, 39, 43 and 7 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 43-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 10 sections: 60 keep time, 13 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-11.

PART E
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBOIJE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Defend You?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Defend You hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Defend You?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 12, 21, 30, 39, 43 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED
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