Switchback · Celldweller

142 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 5:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ElectronicMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-4, 21-30 and 47-57, and 2 more places -- 27.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 112 BPM
SWITCHBACK · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 12, 19, 20, 32, 34, 38 and 14 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 22 sections: 87 keep time, 20 are fills, 4 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 48-57.

CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART J
BREAK
PART Q
CHORUS 4
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesAJBGQ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Switchback?

112 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Switchback hard to play on drums?

57 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 12 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 Switchback?

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 12, 19, 20, 32, 34, 38 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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