Sad Statue · System of a Down

145 bars at 167 BPM -- fast, and 3:28 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
167 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-52, 77-79 and 81-86 -- 12.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 167 BPM
SAD STATUE · BAR 47
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 11, 12, 20, 24, 32, 55 and 7 more.

LOOP · 167 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 167 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 167 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 167 BPM
BARS 55-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 21 sections: 99 keep time, 13 are fills and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 127-135.

PART C
PART F
PART J
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART S16
PART O
PART C
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesLQCFG+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sad Statue?

167 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 Sad Statue hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Sad Statue?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 11, 12, 20, 24, 32, 55 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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