I-E-A-I-A-I-O · System of a Down

104 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 3:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 19-20 and 23-24, and 9 more places -- 53.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 133 BPM
I-E-A-I-A-I-O · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 9 sections: 83 keep time and 8 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-29.

VERSE
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
VERSE 2
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDAFJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I-E-A-I-A-I-O?

133 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 I-E-A-I-A-I-O hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.

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