The Resistance · Skillet

149 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 3:49 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetal150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-10 and 13-19, and 22 more places -- 30.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 156 BPM
THE RESISTANCE · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 20, 64, 72, 100, 104, 108 and 14 more.

LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 100 · LANDS ON BAR 101

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 17 sections: 73 keep time, 22 are fills, 35 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-19.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART N
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCLNHA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Resistance?

156 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Resistance hard to play on drums?

50 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Resistance?

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 20, 64, 72, 100, 104, 108 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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