Somewhere On Fullerton · Allister

121 bars at 194 BPM -- fast, and 2:30 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

PunkMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
194 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
2:30
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 26-28, and 9 more places -- 29.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 194 BPM
SOMEWHERE ON FULLERTON · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 32, 39, 40, 48, 64 and 8 more.

LOOP · 194 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 194 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 194 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 194 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 9 sections: 89 keep time, 15 are fills, 3 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-28.

PART S1
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDPIGL+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Somewhere On Fullerton?

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 Somewhere On Fullerton hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 2:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Somewhere On Fullerton?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 32, 39, 40, 48, 64 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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