Not Good Enough for Truth in Cliche · Escape The Fate

144 bars at 159 BPM -- fast, and 3:37 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
159 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 44-45 and 49-54, and 9 more places -- 43.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 159 BPM
NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR TRUTH IN CLICHE · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 34, 38, 48, 72, 88 and 6 more.

LOOP · 159 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 159 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 159 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 159 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 12 sections: 96 keep time, 12 are fills, 11 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-16.

CHORUS
PART C
PART E
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART E
PART F
CHORUS 3
BREAK
OUTRO
6 groovesBFCES11+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Not Good Enough for Truth in Cliche?

159 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 Not Good Enough for Truth in Cliche hard to play on drums?

52 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 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 Not Good Enough for Truth in Cliche?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 34, 38, 48, 72, 88 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
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