Note To Self · From First To Last

170 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 105-108, 113-118 and 123-126, and 1 more place -- 10.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
NOTE TO SELF · BARS 105-106
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 18, 22, 24, 28, 32, 34 and 49 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

170 bars across 11 sections: 80 keep time, 55 are fills and 19 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 86-99.

PART B
PART H
CHORUS
PART U
PART Y
PART AB
PART Y
PART AA
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesOHBUY+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Note To Self?

170 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 Note To Self hard to play on drums?

61 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Note To Self?

11 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 18, 22, 24, 28, 32, 34 and 49 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED
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