I Do My Crosswords In Pen · On Broken Wings

126 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
2:35
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-25 -- 13.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
I DO MY CROSSWORDS IN PEN · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 30.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 14 sections: 94 keep time, 1 is a fill, 9 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 52-66.

PART B
PART C
PART G
PART J
PART D
PART N
PART S
OUTRO
14 groovesYDCNS+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Do My Crosswords In Pen?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is I Do My Crosswords In Pen hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 2:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 I Do My Crosswords In Pen?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 30.

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