Not The American Average · Asking Alexandria

184 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 4:00 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreElectronic150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 22, and 7 more places -- 14.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 185 BPM
NOT THE AMERICAN AVERAGE · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 31 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 4-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

184 bars across 14 sections: 69 keep time, 37 are fills, 12 are stops and 55 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-27.

PART F
PART O
PART Y
PART K
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
11 groovesS12KFLO+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Not The American Average?

185 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 The American Average hard to play on drums?

47 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 14 sittings, about 29 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 The American Average?

14 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED
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