Prescription · Mindless Self Indulgence

127 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:05 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

MetalElectronic150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 61% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-26, 35-42 and 47-70, and 6 more places -- 61.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 165 BPM
PRESCRIPTION · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 102 and 110.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 102 · LANDS ON BAR 103 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 12 sections: 108 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-26.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART C
CHORUS 4
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBCDAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Prescription?

165 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 Prescription 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Prescription?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 102 and 110.

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