Hands Down · Dashboard Confessional

145 bars at 188 BPM -- fast, and 3:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
188 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-16, 19-24 and 27-30, and 3 more places -- 22.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 188 BPM
HANDS DOWN · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 17, 57, 73, 79, 89, 97 and 8 more.

LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 79 · LANDS ON BAR 80
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 89 · LANDS ON BAR 90

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 8 sections: 104 keep time, 14 are fills, 7 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-32.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDZKAGS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hands Down?

188 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 Hands Down hard to play on drums?

63 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 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Hands Down?

10 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 17, 57, 73, 79, 89, 97 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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