Reject Yourself · Killswitch Engage

268 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 194 BPM, 4:38 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
194 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
268
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 53-58, 61-63 and 65-66, and 2 more places -- 9.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 194 BPM
REJECT YOURSELF · BARS 53-54
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 20, 28, 52 and 33 more.

LOOP · 194 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 194 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 194 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 194 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

268 bars across 17 sections: 62 keep time, 39 are fills, 130 are stops and 29 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-51.

PART S3
PART I
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S12
PART AB
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
15 groovesMS12AABI+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Reject Yourself?

194 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Reject Yourself 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

268 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Reject Yourself?

14 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 20, 28, 52 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 268 BARS ANALYSED
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