The Second Best Thing Other Than Death is You · Decongruence

194 bars at 239 BPM -- fast, and 3:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
239 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
194
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 8 more places -- 10% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 239 BPM
THE SECOND BEST THING OTHER THAN DEATH IS YOU · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 25 and 14 more.

LOOP · 239 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 239 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 239 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 239 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

194 bars across 19 sections: 137 keep time, 20 are fills, 6 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 139-152.

CHORUS
PART R
PART W
PART Q
PART I
PART AK
13 groovesAWRQI+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Second Best Thing Other Than Death is You?

239 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 Second Best Thing Other Than Death is You hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

194 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 26 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Second Best Thing Other Than Death is You?

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 25 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 194 BARS ANALYSED
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