The Show Must Go On · Famous Last Words

181 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 5:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
5:22
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26, 135 and 139, and 6 more places -- 17.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
THE SHOW MUST GO ON · BAR 135
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

24 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 9, 10, 16, 20, 21, 22 and 40 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 20-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 27-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

20 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

181 bars across 19 sections: 103 keep time, 47 are fills, 7 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 153-167.

PART G
PART V
PART Y
PART V
PART AJ
OUTRO 2
12 groovesMGVYAJ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Show Must Go On?

135 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 Show Must Go On hard to play on drums?

54 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

181 bars, about 5:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 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 Show Must Go On?

24 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 9, 10, 16, 20, 21, 22 and 40 more.

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