MAKEDAMNSURE · Taking Back Sunday

114 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-33, 58-73 and 98-103 -- 26.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
MAKEDAMNSURE · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 17, 25, 49, 57, 97, 104 and 2 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 97 · LANDS ON BAR 98
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 104-105 · LANDS ON BAR 106 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 11 sections: 66 keep time, 8 are fills, 27 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-48.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGDIBM+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is MAKEDAMNSURE?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is MAKEDAMNSURE hard to play on drums?

48 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 MAKEDAMNSURE?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 17, 25, 49, 57, 97, 104 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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