Still Swingin · Papa Roach

113 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-32, 34-36 and 38-40, and 4 more places -- 29.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
STILL SWINGIN · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 33, 37, 60 and 9 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 11 sections: 77 keep time, 15 are fills, 5 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-23.

CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART S
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBKJSS7+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Still Swingin?

140 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 Still Swingin hard to play on drums?

59 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Still Swingin?

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 33, 37, 60 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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