The Disco Before The Breakdown · Against Me!

52 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 1:14 of it without a break -- on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PunkRock150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
52
LENGTH
1:14
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-14, 17-18 and 20-22, and 2 more places -- 36% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 168 BPM
THE DISCO BEFORE THE BREAKDOWN · BAR 9
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

52 bars across 5 sections: 44 keep time and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-30.

PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCHAFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Disco Before The Breakdown?

168 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 Disco Before The Breakdown hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

52 bars, about 1:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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