The Only Difference Between Martyrdom And Suicide Is Press Coverage · Panic! At The Disco

118 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-25, 29-33 and 55-59, and 3 more places -- 26.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 170 BPM
THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MARTYRDOM AND SUICIDE IS PRESS COVERAGE · BARS 21-22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 18, 19, 20, 28, 35 and 8 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 18-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 13 sections: 76 keep time, 14 are fills, 12 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-17.

PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART A
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART L
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
9 groovesIDALX+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Only Difference Between Martyrdom And Suicide Is Press Coverage?

170 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 Only Difference Between Martyrdom And Suicide Is Press Coverage hard to play on drums?

56 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 Only Difference Between Martyrdom And Suicide Is Press Coverage?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 18, 19, 20, 28, 35 and 8 more.

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