Formidable · Twenty One Pilots

98 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 2:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Pop120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 72% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-5, 7-13 and 15-21, and 12 more places -- 72.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 137 BPM
FORMIDABLE · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 26 and 82.

LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 3 sections: 92 keep time, 2 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-58.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesAGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Formidable?

137 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Formidable hard to play on drums?

57 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Formidable?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 26 and 82.

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