I Write Sins Not Tragedies · Panic! At The Disco

128 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:01 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-40, 65-71 and 73-79, and 11 more places -- 34.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 170 BPM
I WRITE SINS NOT TRAGEDIES · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 32, 44, 48, 56, 64, 72 and 3 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 13 sections: 66 keep time, 9 are fills, 14 are stops and 26 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 73-84.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART F
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART B
OUTRO
8 groovesDS1BFO+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Write Sins Not Tragedies?

170 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 Write Sins Not Tragedies hard to play on drums?

56 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 Write Sins Not Tragedies?

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 32, 44, 48, 56, 64, 72 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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