Sided With The Enemy · Raise The Fallen

101 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 2:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
2:35
DIFFICULTY
96/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-26 -- 14.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 155 BPM
SIDED WITH THE ENEMY · BARS 13-14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 12, 28, 40, 44, 48, 55 and 13 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 14 sections: 51 keep time, 19 are fills, 15 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-27.

PART E
PART I
PART K
PART O
PART N
PART I
OUTRO
13 groovesAAEINK+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sided With The Enemy?

155 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Sided With The Enemy hard to play on drums?

96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 2:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 Sided With The Enemy?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 12, 28, 40, 44, 48, 55 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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