Shy Away/Heathens/Next Semester · Twenty one pilots

458 bars at 194 BPM -- fast, and 9:27 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
194 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
458
LENGTH
9:27
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 201-203, 205-211 and 213-228, and 4 more places -- 15.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 194 BPM
SHY AWAY/HEATHENS/NEXT SEMESTER · BAR 201
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 32, 64, 80, 88, 94, 96 and 44 more.

LOOP · 194 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 194 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 194 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89
LOOP · 194 BPM
BAR 94 · LANDS ON BAR 95 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

458 bars across 31 sections: 264 keep time, 50 are fills, 63 are stops and 56 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-31.

PART A
PART A
PART E
PART D
PART Z
CHORUS
PART S19
19 groovesAEDEAS19+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shy Away/Heathens/Next Semester?

194 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 Shy Away/Heathens/Next Semester hard to play on drums?

45 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

458 bars, about 9:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 82 exercises over 25 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Shy Away/Heathens/Next Semester?

20 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 32, 64, 80, 88, 94, 96 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 458 BARS ANALYSED
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