I Only Go To School For The Handrails · Forus

140 bars at 250 BPM -- fast, and 2:09 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
250 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
2:09
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-23, 25-27 and 29-30, and 6 more places -- 34.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 250 BPM
I ONLY GO TO SCHOOL FOR THE HANDRAILS · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 24, 28, 36, 59, 60, 61 and 21 more.

LOOP · 250 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 250 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 250 BPM
BARS 70-71 · LANDS ON BAR 72 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 12 sections: 64 keep time, 27 are fills, 31 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-23.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART A
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART Y
PART AE
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
9 groovesBYKAAG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Only Go To School For The Handrails?

250 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 I Only Go To School For The Handrails hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 2:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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.

How many fills are in I Only Go To School For The Handrails?

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 24, 28, 36, 59, 60, 61 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED
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