Dressed For Friend Requests · Drop Dead, Gorgeous

115 bars at 177 BPM -- fast, and 2:36 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
177 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-42, 74-75 and 77-79, and 1 more place -- 26% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 177 BPM
DRESSED FOR FRIEND REQUESTS · BAR 75
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 18, 22, 28, 58, 60, 66 and 7 more.

LOOP · 177 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 177 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 177 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 177 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 12 sections: 68 keep time, 13 are fills, 5 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 89-101.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART K
PART M
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesLCS1KM+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dressed For Friend Requests?

177 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 Dressed For Friend Requests hard to play on drums?

46 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Dressed For Friend Requests?

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 18, 22, 28, 58, 60, 66 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →