Song #3 · Stone Sour

162 bars at 157 BPM -- fast, and 4:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
157 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-49, 71-77 and 79-84, and 4 more places -- 31.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 157 BPM
SONG #3 · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 50, 54, 102, 106 and 138.

LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

162 bars across 13 sections: 128 keep time, 5 are fills, 4 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 72-101.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
VERSE
8 groovesJLCNY+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Song #3?

157 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 Song #3 hard to play on drums?

61 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Song #3?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 50, 54, 102, 106 and 138.

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