Me Against The World · Lizzy Borden

169 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 5:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
5:00
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26-45, 56-58 and 60-62, and 3 more places -- 28.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 135 BPM
ME AGAINST THE WORLD · BARS 26-27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 17, 25, 46, 47, 55, 84 and 8 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 46-47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

169 bars across 8 sections: 143 keep time, 14 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 56-83.

PART A
CHORUS
PART N
PART J
OUTRO
8 groovesFUNAJ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Me Against The World?

135 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 Me Against The World hard to play on drums?

49 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 5:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Me Against The World?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 17, 25, 46, 47, 55, 84 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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