I Used To Make Out With Medusa · Bring Me The Horizon

234 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 4:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
234
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 83-85, 87-89 and 119-122, and 8 more places -- 14.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
I USED TO MAKE OUT WITH MEDUSA · BAR 83
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

26 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 16 and 43 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 4-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

22 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

234 bars across 23 sections: 138 keep time, 49 are fills, 20 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 171-185.

PART M
PART R
PART U
CHORUS 3
PART BA
CHORUS 4
16 groovesACBAUMI+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Used To Make Out With Medusa?

190 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 Make Out With Medusa hard to play on drums?

69 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?

234 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 91 exercises over 23 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Used To Make Out With Medusa?

26 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 16 and 43 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 234 BARS ANALYSED
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