Symbolization Is Boring SCREAM HOW YOU FEEL (Emotional Euthanasia) · Sam Graves

163 bars at 181 BPM -- fast, and 3:36 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
181 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 7 more places -- 17.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 181 BPM
SYMBOLIZATION IS BORING SCREAM HOW YOU FEEL (EMOTIONAL EUTHANASIA) · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 16, 20, 40, 44, 48, 56 and 13 more.

LOOP · 181 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 181 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 181 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 181 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

163 bars across 17 sections: 93 keep time, 19 are fills and 28 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-11.

PART A
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGAEMC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Symbolization Is Boring SCREAM HOW YOU FEEL (Emotional Euthanasia)?

181 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 Symbolization Is Boring SCREAM HOW YOU FEEL (Emotional Euthanasia) hard to play on drums?

63 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 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 Symbolization Is Boring SCREAM HOW YOU FEEL (Emotional Euthanasia)?

6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 16, 20, 40, 44, 48, 56 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED
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