Hope · Descendents

112 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 1:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Punk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
1:52
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-19, 29-39 and 49-60, and 1 more place -- 40.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 240 BPM
HOPE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 28, 40, 48, 61, 62 and 5 more.

LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 240 BPM
BARS 61-62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 4 sections: 76 keep time, 11 are fills and 20 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-20.

PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEBAKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hope?

240 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 Hope hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 1:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Hope?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 28, 40, 48, 61, 62 and 5 more.

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