Prisoner Of Society · Living End

141 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 3:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 33-34 and 36-39, and 6 more places -- 28.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 146 BPM
PRISONER OF SOCIETY · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 16, 23, 24 and 19 more.

LOOP · 146 BPM
BARS 10-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BARS 48-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 13 sections: 90 keep time, 25 are fills, 10 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-47.

PART B
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART O
CHORUS 4
PART O
PART S10
8 groovesFOHBS10+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Prisoner Of Society?

146 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 Prisoner Of Society hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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 Prisoner Of Society?

9 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 16, 23, 24 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED
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