Sinister Rouge · Bad Religion

89 bars at 191 BPM -- fast, and 1:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
191 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
1:52
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-20, 33-39 and 65-71 -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 191 BPM
SINISTER ROUGE · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 11, 12, 24, 28, 31, 32 and 15 more.

LOOP · 191 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 191 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 191 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 191 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 13 sections: 39 keep time, 21 are fills and 20 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

PART A
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART A
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFGACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sinister Rouge?

191 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 Sinister Rouge hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 1:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 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 Sinister Rouge?

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 11, 12, 24, 28, 31, 32 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED
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