Failsafe · Misery Signals

225 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 5:03 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
225
LENGTH
5:03
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-16, 75-77 and 83, and 5 more places -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 178 BPM
FAILSAFE · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 22, 26, 30, 36, 38, 39 and 36 more.

LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

225 bars across 24 sections: 127 keep time, 42 are fills, 6 are stops and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 191-225.

PART F
PART H
PART S6
PART AI
PART AN
PART AR
BREAK 3
OUTRO
14 groovesWCARHAN+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Failsafe?

178 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 Failsafe hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

225 bars, about 5:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Failsafe?

16 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 22, 26, 30, 36, 38, 39 and 36 more.

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