SOS feat. Travis Barker · Sueco

104 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
2:46
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-22 and 25, and 18 more places -- 50.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 150 BPM
SOS FEAT. TRAVIS BARKER · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 32, 40, 56, 64, 72, 79 and 3 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 79 · LANDS ON BAR 80

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 10 sections: 62 keep time, 9 are fills, 4 are stops and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-31.

COUNT-IN
INTRO
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBS1S9HA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is SOS feat. Travis Barker?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 SOS feat. Travis Barker hard to play on drums?

47 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 2:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 SOS feat. Travis Barker?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 32, 40, 56, 64, 72, 79 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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