My Pledge Of Allegiance · After Forever

127 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 5:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-32, 34-40 and 50-52, and 1 more place -- 17.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
MY PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 17, 21, 25, 33, 49, 53 and 4 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 18 sections: 77 keep time, 10 are fills, 1 is a stop and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-11.

PART B
PART F
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART S12
PART B
PART F
PART O
10 groovesJOBFS12+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Pledge Of Allegiance?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 My Pledge Of Allegiance hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 5:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 17 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 My Pledge Of Allegiance?

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 17, 21, 25, 33, 49, 53 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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