The Judge · Twenty One Pilots

138 bars of 4/4 at a walking 83 BPM, 6:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieHip Hop / ReggaeUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
6:38
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 44-56 -- 10% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 83 BPM
THE JUDGE · BARS 44-45
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 41, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78 and 2 more.

LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 83 BPM
BARS 99-100 · LANDS ON BAR 101 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 11 sections: 100 keep time, 8 are fills, 8 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 115-133.

PART D
PART F
PART J
PART O
CHORUS
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesRAEJOX+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Judge?

83 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is The Judge hard to play on drums?

57 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?

138 bars, about 6:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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 Judge?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 41, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED
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