Set It Off · Audioslave

79 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 3:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 19, and 9 more places -- 30.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 87 BPM
SET IT OFF · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 1, 5 and 61.

LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 10 sections: 57 keep time, 4 are fills and 7 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-33.

CHORUS
PART E
PART F
PART E
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBFEIHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Set It Off?

87 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Set It Off 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Set It Off?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 1, 5 and 61.

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