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Formidable · Twenty One Pilots

EXERCISE 1 OF 13
Groove A -- Chorus
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0 / 13 PASSED · 71 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesAGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Formidable on drums

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.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 1-54, ride through bars 55-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-98.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
Formidable -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED