Sick Like Me · In This Moment

165 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 5:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
5:00
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-26, 29-30 and 33-34, and 28 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 132 BPM
SICK LIKE ME · BARS 25-26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 18, 20, 22, 23, 28, 36 and 18 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 22-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

165 bars across 19 sections: 91 keep time, 24 are fills, 15 are stops and 33 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-57.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART S15
CHORUS 5
12 groovesGS15BS1C+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sick Like Me?

132 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Sick Like Me hard to play on drums?

62 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 5:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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 Sick Like Me?

8 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 18, 20, 22, 23, 28, 36 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED
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