sugar, were going down (made from kage) · Fallout Boy

140 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 3:27 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 11-16 and 43-49, and 3 more places -- 22.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 162 BPM
SUGAR, WERE GOING DOWN (MADE FROM KAGE) · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 18, 34, 41 and 14 more.

LOOP · 162 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BARS 41-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 17 sections: 86 keep time, 20 are fills, 6 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-9.

CHORUS
PART F
PART I
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART R
PART I
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART S14
PART Y
OUTRO
10 groovesBIS14KO+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is sugar, were going down (made from kage)?

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

Is sugar, were going down (made from kage) hard to play on drums?

45 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in sugar, were going down (made from kage)?

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 18, 34, 41 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED
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