Face To Face · Citizen Soldier

143 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:41 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 23 and 48, and 17 more places -- 23.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 155 BPM
FACE TO FACE · BAR 48
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 37, 38, 39, 41, 42, 43 and 8 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 37-39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 41-43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 91 · LANDS ON BAR 92
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 111 · LANDS ON BAR 112

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 14 sections: 82 keep time, 14 are fills, 14 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-60.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART B
CHORUS 4
8 groovesCBFS1H+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Face To Face?

155 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 Face To Face hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Face To Face?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 37, 38, 39, 41, 42, 43 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED
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