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Stressed Out · 21 Pilots

EXERCISE 11 OF 15
Groove H
71 / 71 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
4 groovesAS2S5S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stressed Out on drums

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

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
40/100

hi-hat through bars 1-14, silence through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-48, snare through bars 49-51 and hi-hat through bars 52-71.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Stressed Out -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
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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