The Enemy · Pain of Truth

121 bars at 182 BPM -- fast, and 2:40 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
182 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-44 and 69-76 -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 182 BPM
THE ENEMY · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 30 more.

LOOP · 182 BPM
BARS 1-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 182 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 182 BPM
BARS 21-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 182 BPM
BARS 49-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 8 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 11 sections: 55 keep time, 36 are fills, 16 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-44.

PART H
PART P
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART AC
OUTRO
8 groovesQHPACU+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Enemy?

182 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 Enemy hard to play on drums?

54 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Enemy?

11 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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