Streamline · System of a Down

167 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 131 BPM, 3:36 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 50-52, and 10 more places -- 38% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 131 BPM
STREAMLINE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 49, 65, 90 and 138.

LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

167 bars across 13 sections: 115 keep time, 5 are fills, 2 are stops and 30 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-88.

CHORUS
PART S3
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART L
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCGS3LJ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Streamline?

131 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Streamline 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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 Streamline?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 49, 65, 90 and 138.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED
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