Stop The Fucking Car (Circa Survive) · Sirca Curvive

204 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 158 BPM, 4:22 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
204
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 85-87, 89-90 and 93-95, and 17 more places -- 25.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 158 BPM
STOP THE FUCKING CAR (CIRCA SURVIVE) · BARS 85-86
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 68 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 11, 12 and 62 more.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 11-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 16 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

204 bars across 14 sections: 90 keep time, 68 are fills, 30 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 118-130.

PART B
PART M
PART M
CHORUS
PART AJ
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesZAJMBX+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stop The Fucking Car (Circa Survive)?

158 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Stop The Fucking Car (Circa Survive) hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

204 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Stop The Fucking Car (Circa Survive)?

17 fills to learn, played 68 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 11, 12 and 62 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 204 BARS ANALYSED
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