Set It Off · Madball

127 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:40 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcorePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 15 more places -- 22.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
SET IT OFF · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 32, 48, 56 and 4 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 8 sections: 63 keep time, 10 are fills and 44 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 90-121.

PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
5 groovesEFHBTFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Set It Off?

190 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 Set It Off hard to play on drums?

49 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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 Set It Off?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 32, 48, 56 and 4 more.

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