Self vs Self (feat. In Flames) · Pendulum

203 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 4:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalElectronic150 BPM and up
TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
203
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51-57, 59-64 and 87, and 9 more places -- 23.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 174 BPM
SELF VS SELF (FEAT. IN FLAMES) · BAR 52
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 10, 18, 33, 34, 41, 42 and 28 more.

LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 174 BPM
BARS 33-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 174 BPM
BARS 41-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

203 bars across 13 sections: 128 keep time, 34 are fills, 26 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-32.

PART C
PART H
PART L
CHORUS
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART AB
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesPLABTC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Self vs Self (feat. In Flames)?

174 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 Self vs Self (feat. In Flames) hard to play on drums?

52 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

203 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 13 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 Self vs Self (feat. In Flames)?

13 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 10, 18, 33, 34, 41, 42 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 203 BARS ANALYSED
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