The Boy Who Destroyed The World · AFI

118 bars at 167 BPM -- fast, and 2:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
167 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3, 6-7 and 13, and 17 more places -- 23.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 167 BPM
THE BOY WHO DESTROYED THE WORLD · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 10, 11, 19, 26, 27 and 18 more.

LOOP · 167 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 167 BPM
BARS 10-11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 167 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 167 BPM
BARS 26-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 7 sections: 79 keep time, 24 are fills and 7 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 60-70.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBCURFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Boy Who Destroyed The World?

167 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 Boy Who Destroyed The World hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 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 The Boy Who Destroyed The World?

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 10, 11, 19, 26, 27 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
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