Moving For The Sake Of Motion · Underoath

148 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:07 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-7 and 10-12, and 4 more places -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
MOVING FOR THE SAKE OF MOTION · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 8, 9, 17, 21, 29 and 15 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 10 sections: 82 keep time, 21 are fills and 35 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-87.

CHORUS
PART G
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART AA
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBGTAAI+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Moving For The Sake Of Motion?

190 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 Moving For The Sake Of Motion hard to play on drums?

50 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 Moving For The Sake Of Motion?

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 8, 9, 17, 21, 29 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED
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