Protest The Hero - Fishhook · Ben Jon Davis - Protest The Hero

239 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 5:02 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
239
LENGTH
5:02
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-6, 10-12 and 14, and 5 more places -- 9.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
PROTEST THE HERO - FISHHOOK · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

30 fills to learn, played 86 times: bars 15, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24 and 80 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 28-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

26 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

239 bars across 22 sections: 107 keep time, 86 are fills, 13 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-14.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART AM
PART AF
PART BE
PART S17
PART AF
15 groovesHBAFAMS17+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Protest The Hero - Fishhook?

190 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 The Hero - Fishhook hard to play on drums?

56 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?

239 bars, about 5:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 86 exercises over 25 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Protest The Hero - Fishhook?

30 fills to learn, played 86 times: bars 15, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24 and 80 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 239 BARS ANALYSED
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