Good To Know That If I Ever Need Attention All I Have To Do Is Die · Brand New

238 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 6:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
238
LENGTH
6:48
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-51, 53-55 and 57-59, and 25 more places -- 25.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
GOOD TO KNOW THAT IF I EVER NEED ATTENTION ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DIE · BAR 49
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 48 and 96.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

238 bars across 10 sections: 163 keep time, 2 are fills, 60 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-24.

PART A
PART F
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
6 groovesEAFS7S9+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Good To Know That If I Ever Need Attention All I Have To Do Is Die?

140 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 Good To Know That If I Ever Need Attention All I Have To Do Is Die hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

238 bars, about 6:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Good To Know That If I Ever Need Attention All I Have To Do Is Die?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 48 and 96.

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