No Swimming · Utsu-P

172 bars at 216 BPM -- fast, and 3:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
216 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-32, 109-115 and 131-133 -- 10.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 216 BPM
NO SWIMMING · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 48 more.

LOOP · 216 BPM
BARS 1-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 216 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 216 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 216 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

172 bars across 19 sections: 87 keep time, 54 are fills, 13 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-15.

PART F
PART I
CHORUS
PART S
PART U
PART AD
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART AP
PART V
15 groovesMIFSAP+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is No Swimming?

216 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 No Swimming hard to play on drums?

63 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 No Swimming?

14 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 48 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED
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