Failure By Design · Brand New

144 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:12 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35, 38 and 40, and 22 more places -- 19.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
FAILURE BY DESIGN · BAR 38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 25, 67 and 113.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 113 · LANDS ON BAR 114
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 10 sections: 86 keep time, 3 are fills, 33 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-24.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART K
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBKOS1S4+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Failure By Design?

180 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 Failure By Design hard to play on drums?

40 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Failure By Design?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 25, 67 and 113.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
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