Rise Above · Black Flag

63 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 1:07 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PunkMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and upFour drums or fewerIntermediate
TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
1:07
DIFFICULTY
93/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 16 and 18, and 11 more places -- 44.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 220 BPM
RISE ABOVE · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 9 and 63.

LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 63
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

63 bars across 3 sections: 58 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-62.

PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesECAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rise Above?

220 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 Rise Above hard to play on drums?

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 87 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

63 bars, about 1:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 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 Rise Above?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 9 and 63.

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