The Other Side · James Marriott

142 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 3:16 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePop150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-38, 41-46 and 65-70, and 5 more places -- 38.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 174 BPM
THE OTHER SIDE · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 31, 32, 48, 64, 80, 120 and 4 more.

LOOP · 174 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 11 sections: 98 keep time, 10 are fills, 2 are stops and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-47.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART S8
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFCS8DB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Other Side?

174 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?

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

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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 Other Side?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 31, 32, 48, 64, 80, 120 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED
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