← SONGS

Stressed Out · Twenty One Pilots

EXERCISE 1 OF 24
Groove A -- Part A
0 / 141 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 48 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stressed Out on drums

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

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bars 1-29, silence through bars 30-32, snare through bars 33-36, hi-hat through bars 37-78, silence through bars 79-81 and snare through bars 82-85, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    9
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |X-----------X-----------|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x---------------------x-|
Stressed Out -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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, B -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. Bars 27-36 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 55-78 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
START THE COURSE ↑

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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED