Five Years · Misery Signals

241 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 5:10 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
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
241
LENGTH
5:10
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 174-175, 178-179 and 182-183, and 12 more places -- 12.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
FIVE YEARS · BARS 174-175
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

25 fills to learn, played 83 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 77 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

24 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

241 bars across 20 sections: 117 keep time, 83 are fills, 11 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 203-235.

PART J
PART X
PART AQ
PART AV
PART BH
PART AX
CHORUS
OUTRO
14 groovesCFXMJAX+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Five Years?

190 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 Years hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

241 bars, about 5:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 77 exercises over 21 sittings, about 27 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 Five Years?

25 fills to learn, played 83 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 77 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 241 BARS ANALYSED
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