"One With The Underdogs" · terror

66 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 1:15 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
1:15
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-48 and 50-56 -- 21.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 210 BPM
"ONE WITH THE UNDERDOGS" · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 3, 11, 21, 29, 40, 41 and 6 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 40-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

66 bars across 8 sections: 41 keep time, 12 are fills, 4 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-56.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDKMHF+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is "One With The Underdogs"?

210 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 "One With The Underdogs" hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 1:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 "One With The Underdogs"?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 3, 11, 21, 29, 40, 41 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED
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