Suggestions · System of a Down

113 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 2:45 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-22, 33-46 and 89-93 -- 33.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 164 BPM
SUGGESTIONS · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 23, 24, 47, 48, 80, 94 and 2 more.

LOOP · 164 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81
LOOP · 164 BPM
BARS 94-96 · LANDS ON BAR 97 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 10 sections: 62 keep time, 8 are fills, 17 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-22.

COUNT-IN
INTRO
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
PART G
PART S7
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBES7GS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Suggestions?

164 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 Suggestions hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 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 Suggestions?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 23, 24, 47, 48, 80, 94 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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