May Today Become The Day · Sentenced

178 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:57 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-18, 21-26 and 47-52, and 8 more places -- 39.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 180 BPM
MAY TODAY BECOME THE DAY · BARS 13-14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 12, 115, 119, 121, 129 and 139.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 115 · LANDS ON BAR 116 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 119 · LANDS ON BAR 120
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 129 · LANDS ON BAR 130

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

178 bars across 15 sections: 129 keep time, 6 are fills, 13 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 154-177.

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

Questions

What BPM is May Today Become The Day?

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 May Today Become The Day hard to play on drums?

45 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?

178 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 May Today Become The Day?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 12, 115, 119, 121, 129 and 139.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED
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