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Drum Show · Twenty One Pilots

EXERCISE 31 OF 57
Join Part N to Break 2 (bars 43-45)
78 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, BREAK 2
PART A
PART C
PART F
PART N
BREAK 2
PART F
CHORUS 2
BREAK 4
PART Y
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesLFCS14N+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Drum Show on drums

137 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 3:20 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, kick and crashes through bars 25-28, snare through bars 29-36, hi-hat through bars 37-42, toms through bars 43-44 and silence through bars 45-46, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-24, 53-55 and 57-59 -- 12.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17               18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|x-g-x-g-x-g-x-o-|
SD |--------x-------|--------x---x-x-|
BD |x-x---x-----x-x-|--x---x---x-----|
Drum Show -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 16, 32, 36, 38, 40, 41 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- F, N -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-28 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Bars 35-78 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Bars 30-44 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 43-53 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 61-113 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Drum Show?

164 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 Drum Show hard to play on drums?

53 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 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Drum Show?

12 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 16, 32, 36, 38, 40, 41 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED