Landmines · Sum-41

125 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 2:54 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Punk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-25, 28-33 and 62-67, and 3 more places -- 28.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 172 BPM
LANDMINES · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 9, 17, 18, 19, 26, 27 and 24 more.

LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 172 BPM
BARS 17-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BARS 26-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BARS 34-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 10 sections: 84 keep time and 30 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 87-96.

PART B
CHORUS
PART N
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesJBNTFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Landmines?

172 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 Landmines hard to play on drums?

64 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Landmines?

11 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 9, 17, 18, 19, 26, 27 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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