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Shy Away/Heathens/Next Semester · Twenty one pilots

EXERCISE 6 OF 103
Fill at bar 32 and 96 (a small one)
171 / 458 BARS COVERED
0 / 103 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART E
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
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 4
JOIN · 21
LINK · 5
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shy Away/Heathens/Next Semester on drums

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.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
194 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
458
LENGTH
9:27
DIFFICULTY
45/100

hi-hat through bars 1-65, silence through bars 66-72, hi-hat through bars 73-88, snare through bars 89-100, hi-hat through bars 101-106 and silence through bars 107-108, and 39 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    201
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Shy Away/Heathens/Next Semester -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 82 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- AE, E -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-65 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 73-344 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 88-200 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part T -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and Part T -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part T and Part Z -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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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