Next Semester · Twenty One Pilots

124 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 2:50 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkRock150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 5 and 27-34, and 8 more places -- 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 · 175 BPM
NEXT SEMESTER · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 15, 16, 23, 24, 42, 96 and 4 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 100 · LANDS ON BAR 101 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 10 sections: 92 keep time, 10 are fills and 10 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 57-88.

PART B
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEIHBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Next Semester?

175 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 Next Semester hard to play on drums?

64 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 Next Semester?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 15, 16, 23, 24, 42, 96 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
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