Straight Edge · Minor Threat

35 bars at 181 BPM -- fast, and 0:46 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
181 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
35
LENGTH
0:46
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 85% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 11-17 and 19-23, and 1 more place -- 85.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 181 BPM
STRAIGHT EDGE · BAR 4
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 2.

LOOP · 181 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

35 bars across 2 sections: 32 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-34.

OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Straight Edge?

181 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 Straight Edge hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

35 bars, about 0:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 21 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 Straight Edge?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 2.

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