Science · System of a Down

121 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:50 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-17, 34-41 and 50-57, and 7 more places -- 33.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 170 BPM
SCIENCE · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 8 sections: 80 keep time, 26 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 75-94.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCJDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Science?

170 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 Science hard to play on drums?

51 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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