Protest And Survive · Discharge

107 bars at 193 BPM -- fast, and 2:13 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Punk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
193 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
2:13
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 90% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-29, 31-49 and 51-63, and 3 more places -- 90.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 193 BPM
PROTEST AND SURVIVE · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 4, 6, 30, 50, 64, 66 and 2 more.

LOOP · 193 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 193 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 193 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 3 sections: 93 keep time, 8 are fills, 2 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-29.

OUTRO 2
3 groovesCS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Protest And Survive?

193 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 Protest And Survive hard to play on drums?

62 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 2:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Protest And Survive?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 4, 6, 30, 50, 64, 66 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED
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