Stressed Out · Twenty One Pilots

141 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:19 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Hip Hop / ReggaeAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletBeginner
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9, and 29 more places -- 37.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 170 BPM
STRESSED OUT · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 101.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 101 · LANDS ON BAR 102
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 10 sections: 116 keep time, 1 is a fill, 3 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-27.

PART B
CHORUS
PART A
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFBCAS9+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stressed Out?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Stressed Out hard to play on drums?

64 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Stressed Out?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 101.

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