Not Today · Twenty One Pilots

111 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieHip Hop / Reggae90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-23, 25-27 and 29-35, and 6 more places -- 54.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 115 BPM
NOT TODAY · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 66, 68, 74, 75, 76, 90 and 6 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 74-76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 90-92 · LANDS ON BAR 93 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 11 sections: 50 keep time, 12 are fills, 3 are stops and 43 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-36.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART S6
PART J
PART S8
OUTRO
9 groovesBS1JS8S3+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Not Today?

115 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Not Today hard to play on drums?

57 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 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 Not Today?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 66, 68, 74, 75, 76, 90 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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