Hate This Song · All Time Low, I Prevail

80 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 2:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 25-27, and 6 more places -- 36.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 112 BPM
HATE THIS SONG · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 36, 40, 44 and 5 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars across 10 sections: 53 keep time, 11 are fills, 1 is a stop and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-15.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEBJQS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hate This Song?

112 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 Hate This Song hard to play on drums?

50 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Hate This Song?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 36, 40, 44 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED
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