Everything As You Knew It · a 6-person ensemble of buffoons

210 bars at 215 BPM -- fast, and 3:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
215 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
210
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51-53, 55-56 and 59, and 7 more places -- 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.

LOOP · 215 BPM
EVERYTHING AS YOU KNEW IT · BAR 51
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 77 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 26, 27 and 71 more.

LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 215 BPM
BARS 26-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

210 bars across 17 sections: 90 keep time, 79 are fills, 27 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 127-145.

PART G
PART O
PART V
CHORUS
PART AT
PART V
PART O
PART AH
OUTRO 2
12 groovesAIVOATAH+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Everything As You Knew It?

215 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 Everything As You Knew It hard to play on drums?

62 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

210 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 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 Everything As You Knew It?

18 fills to learn, played 77 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 26, 27 and 71 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 210 BARS ANALYSED
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