"Five Feet Under" · NOFX

116 bars at 212 BPM -- fast, and 2:11 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
212 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
2:11
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 14 and 24-25, and 10 more places -- 52.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 212 BPM
"FIVE FEET UNDER" · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 9 more.

LOOP · 212 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 212 BPM
BARS 15-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 212 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 212 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 11 sections: 84 keep time, 15 are fills, 5 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 44-57.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART O
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDBOHM+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is "Five Feet Under"?

212 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 "Five Feet Under" hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 2:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in "Five Feet Under"?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
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