The April Situation · Shattered Realm

134 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 18-24 and 50, and 12 more places -- 34.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 170 BPM
THE APRIL SITUATION · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 17, 25, 35, 39, 41, 45 and 16 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 11 sections: 50 keep time, 22 are fills, 44 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-8.

PART A
CHORUS
PART S5
PART G
PART K
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCS10GKN+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The April Situation?

170 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 The April Situation hard to play on drums?

47 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 The April Situation?

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 17, 25, 35, 39, 41, 45 and 16 more.

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