Midwest Indigo · Twenty One Pilots

92 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Hip Hop / ReggaeElectronic90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 37, and 2 more places -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 115 BPM
MIDWEST INDIGO · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 20, 24, 36, 60, 63, 64 and 6 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 63-64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77
LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 81-82 · LANDS ON BAR 83 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 8 sections: 56 keep time, 12 are fills, 1 is a stop and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-54.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART J
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBS1PEH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Midwest Indigo?

115 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 Midwest Indigo hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, 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 Midwest Indigo?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 20, 24, 36, 60, 63, 64 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Twenty One Pilots drum parts

EVERY TWENTY ONE PILOTS CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →