Routines In The Night v2 · Twenty one pilots

100 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 3:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

113 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

100

LENGTH

3:32

DIFFICULTY

57/100

silence through bars 1-8 and hi-hat through bars 9-100.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-30, 33-39 and 41-46, and 10 more places -- 56.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    25                               26
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x-----xx--xx----x-------|
BD |x-----------x-------x-------x---|--------------------x-------x---|

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 32, 84 and 96.

It cuts the song into 20 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

1. The grooves the song is built on -- D, B -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
2. Bars 9-32 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
3. Through the Chorus and the Break 2 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.