Swing · Parkway Drive

151 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:16 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 15 and 19-21, and 5 more places -- 10.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 185 BPM
SWING · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 2, 9, 10, 14, 16 and 25 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 16-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

151 bars across 15 sections: 93 keep time, 31 are fills, 9 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 96-112.

PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART Z
PART AF
PART AJ
PART AN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesHEAFAJQ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Swing?

185 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 Swing hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Swing?

16 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 2, 9, 10, 14, 16 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED
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