The Great Disappointment · AFI

265 bars at 184 BPM -- fast, and 5:06 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
265
LENGTH
5:06
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 85-101, 103 and 127-159, and 4 more places -- 32.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 184 BPM
THE GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT · BARS 85-86
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 105, 106, 197 and 198.

LOOP · 184 BPM
BARS 105-106 · LANDS ON BAR 107 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BARS 197-198 · LANDS ON BAR 199 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

265 bars across 13 sections: 121 keep time, 5 are fills, 125 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-60.

PART B
PART C
PART C
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFCBKG+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Great Disappointment?

184 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 Great Disappointment 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

265 bars, about 5:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Great Disappointment?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 105, 106, 197 and 198.

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