Massachusetts · Silverstein

131 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:55 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 17 more places -- 45.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 180 BPM
MASSACHUSETTS · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 2, 26, 34, 66, 74 and 4 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 82 · LANDS ON BAR 83 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 9 sections: 82 keep time, 10 are fills, 26 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-57.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART J
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCJFS7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Massachusetts?

180 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 Massachusetts hard to play on drums?

41 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Massachusetts?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 2, 26, 34, 66, 74 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED
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