Discontent With Your State of Being · Show Mercy

77 bars at 159 BPM -- fast, and 1:56 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
159 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
1:56
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 62-68 and 73-76 -- 15.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 159 BPM
DISCONTENT WITH YOUR STATE OF BEING · BAR 62
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 33, 41, 58, 70 and 72.

LOOP · 159 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 159 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 12 sections: 51 keep time, 5 are fills, 7 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-15.

PART B
PART C
PART F
PART G
PART B
PART I
CHORUS
BREAK
PART O
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesLQCBO+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Discontent With Your State of Being?

159 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 Discontent With Your State of Being hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 1:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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 Discontent With Your State of Being?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 33, 41, 58, 70 and 72.

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