Suite-Pee · System of a Down

86 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 1:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
1:45
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 25-27 and 29-32, and 3 more places -- 38.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 195 BPM
SUITE-PEE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 24, 28, 36, 40, 44, 61 and 5 more.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 11 sections: 56 keep time, 11 are fills, 2 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-16.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
VERSE
CHORUS 2
VERSE 2
CHORUS 3
PART L
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBCLOS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Suite-Pee?

195 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 Suite-Pee hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 1:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Suite-Pee?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 24, 28, 36, 40, 44, 61 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED
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