Stressed Out · 21 Pilots

71 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Under 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 82% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-14, 19-21 and 23-34, and 4 more places -- 82.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 85 BPM
STRESSED OUT · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 58 and 71.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 71
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

71 bars across 6 sections: 64 keep time, 2 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-39.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
4 groovesAS2S5S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stressed Out?

85 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 Stressed Out hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Stressed Out?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 58 and 71.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED
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