Souvenirs · Novelists

237 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 6:07 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ProgressiveMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
237
LENGTH
6:07
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 59, 61 and 63, and 33 more places -- 17.2% 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
SOUVENIRS · BAR 59
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 113 times: bars 20, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 and 107 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 28-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 14 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 43-45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 48-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 8 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

237 bars across 7 sections: 60 keep time, 113 are fills, 33 are stops and 28 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-27.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART O
CHORUS
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesVOS6CS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Souvenirs?

155 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 Souvenirs hard to play on drums?

54 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

237 bars, about 6:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 12 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 Souvenirs?

12 fills to learn, played 113 times: bars 20, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 and 107 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 237 BARS ANALYSED
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