THE WORST IS YET TO COME · Distortion

144 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-19, 22-24 and 46-47, and 6 more places -- 14.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
THE WORST IS YET TO COME · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 35 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 2-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 16 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 13 sections: 79 keep time, 41 are fills and 8 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-24.

CHORUS
PART L
PART O
PART L
PART O
PART L
PART AE
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHLOAEW+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is THE WORST IS YET TO COME?

150 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 WORST IS YET TO COME hard to play on drums?

62 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 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 WORST IS YET TO COME?

14 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
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