The Saddest Day · Converge

290 bars at 212 BPM -- fast, and 4:57 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
212 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
290
LENGTH
4:57
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 74-75, 77 and 79-80, and 16 more places -- 19.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 212 BPM
THE SADDEST DAY · BAR 231
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 26, 27, 29, 73, 78, 83 and 17 more.

LOOP · 212 BPM
BARS 26-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 212 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 212 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 212 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

290 bars across 22 sections: 179 keep time, 23 are fills, 59 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-60.

PART E
PART K
CHORUS
PART AB
PART AH
PART E
PART AY
PART Q
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
18 groovesUEKQAY+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Saddest Day?

212 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 Saddest Day hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

290 bars, about 4:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 86 exercises over 33 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Saddest Day?

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 26, 27, 29, 73, 78, 83 and 17 more.

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