Seeing Red · Architects

149 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 3:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 35-36, 39 and 43-44, and 9 more places -- 13.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 164 BPM
SEEING RED · BARS 35-36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 12, 16, 24, 40, 41 and 25 more.

LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 19 sections: 55 keep time, 31 are fills, 27 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-23.

PART I
PART S6
CHORUS
PART E
PART U
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART S14
OUTRO
15 groovesMDEAPU+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Seeing Red?

164 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 Seeing Red 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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 Seeing Red?

15 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 12, 16, 24, 40, 41 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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