Kick Me · Sleeping With Sirens

132 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 2:24 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
2:24
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-38, 42-46 and 70, and 4 more places -- 28% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 220 BPM
KICK ME · BAR 82
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 15, 16, 23, 24 and 103.

LOOP · 220 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 103 · LANDS ON BAR 104
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 11 sections: 74 keep time, 5 are fills, 28 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-102.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART E
PART G
CHORUS
PART A
PART E
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
8 groovesIEGS11A+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kick Me?

220 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 Kick Me hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 2:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Kick Me?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 15, 16, 23, 24 and 103.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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