THE PLAGUE · Melanie Martinez

116 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:19 of playing, on snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-44 and 69-91 -- 53.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
THE PLAGUE · BARS 21-22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 8 sections: 81 keep time and 28 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-43.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART D
BREAK
OUTRO
5 groovesBDS1ES7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is THE PLAGUE?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 PLAGUE hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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