Now The World · AFI

148 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 3:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-16, 68-74 and 81-87 -- 20.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 178 BPM
NOW THE WORLD · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 25, 27, 28, 29, 41 and 22 more.

LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 178 BPM
BARS 27-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 15 sections: 79 keep time, 28 are fills, 19 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-16.

PART B
CHORUS
PART K
PART B
PART B
PART R
PART Q
OUTRO
7 groovesEBRKQ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Now The World?

178 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 Now The World hard to play on drums?

50 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 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 Now The World?

10 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 25, 27, 28, 29, 41 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED
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