Feel The Pressure · DRAIN

130 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 3:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-33, 36-42 and 48-54, and 4 more places -- 31.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 146 BPM
FEEL THE PRESSURE · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 26, 34, 35, 43, 44, 55 and 13 more.

LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BARS 43-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 12 sections: 67 keep time, 19 are fills, 12 are stops and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 103-109.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART S
CHORUS 3
PART O
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDOS1AEK+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Feel The Pressure?

146 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Feel The Pressure hard to play on drums?

61 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Feel The Pressure?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 26, 34, 35, 43, 44, 55 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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