The Other Side · Dismemberment Plan

163 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 27 more places -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 175 BPM
THE OTHER SIDE · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21 and 26 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

163 bars across 12 sections: 114 keep time, 32 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 36-60.

PART B
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART Z
PART B
PART C
5 groovesIBCZS12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Other Side?

175 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 Other Side hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Other Side?

11 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED
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