The Only Thing They Fear Is You · Mick Gordon

170 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 6:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ElectronicMetal90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
6:36
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 102-108 and 110-116 -- 11.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 103 BPM
THE ONLY THING THEY FEAR IS YOU · BARS 102-103
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 13, 25, 65, 67, 68, 69 and 1 more.

LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66
LOOP · 103 BPM
BARS 67-69 · LANDS ON BAR 70 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

170 bars across 14 sections: 80 keep time, 7 are fills, 24 are stops and 51 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 102-118.

PART B
PART H
PART O
PART A
BREAK 2
PART AA
BREAK 3
CHORUS
14 groovesS12S9AAHS11+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Only Thing They Fear Is You?

103 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 Only Thing They Fear Is You hard to play on drums?

63 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 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 6:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 13 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Thing They Fear Is You?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 13, 25, 65, 67, 68, 69 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED
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