I Used To Have A Best Friend [But Then He Gave Me An STD] · Asking Alexandria

176 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 3:36 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreElectronic150 BPM and up
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 11-13, and 5 more places -- 20.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 195 BPM
I USED TO HAVE A BEST FRIEND [BUT THEN HE GAVE ME AN STD] · BAR 59
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 26, 27, 28, 32, 36, 40 and 21 more.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BARS 26-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

176 bars across 19 sections: 109 keep time, 27 are fills, 8 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-17.

CHORUS
PART G
PART AB
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesCOAWLG+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Used To Have A Best Friend [But Then He Gave Me An STD]?

195 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 Used To Have A Best Friend [But Then He Gave Me An STD] hard to play on drums?

54 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 I Used To Have A Best Friend [But Then He Gave Me An STD]?

15 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 26, 27, 28, 32, 36, 40 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED
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