Navigating · Twenty One Pilots

150 bars at 166 BPM -- fast, and 3:37 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Hip Hop / ReggaePop150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
166 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-15 and 18-20, and 9 more places -- 21% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 166 BPM
NAVIGATING · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 39, 40, 41, 49, 73, 74 and 10 more.

LOOP · 166 BPM
BARS 39-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 166 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 166 BPM
BARS 73-74 · LANDS ON BAR 75 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 166 BPM
BARS 128-130 · LANDS ON BAR 131 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

150 bars across 20 sections: 108 keep time, 16 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 102-119.

VERSE
PART J
VERSE 2
PART M
VERSE 3
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART V
VERSE 5
11 groovesFBLJM+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Navigating?

166 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 Navigating hard to play on drums?

62 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 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 15 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 Navigating?

5 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 39, 40, 41, 49, 73, 74 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED
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