If I'm James Dean, You're Audrey Hepburn · Sleeping With Sirens

140 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:30 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 39-45, 47-49 and 51-53, and 10 more places -- 32.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 160 BPM
IF I'M JAMES DEAN, YOU'RE AUDREY HEPBURN · BARS 39-40
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9 and 33 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 8-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 13 sections: 75 keep time, 39 are fills, 3 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 129-139.

PART D
PART H
PART K
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S8
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesOAKDKH+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is If I'm James Dean, You're Audrey Hepburn?

160 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 If I'm James Dean, You're Audrey Hepburn hard to play on drums?

63 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?

140 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 If I'm James Dean, You're Audrey Hepburn?

18 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED
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