The Worst of Both Worlds · Structures

139 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:15 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-3, 10-11 and 18-19, and 4 more places -- 10.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
THE WORST OF BOTH WORLDS · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 3, 7, 9, 11, 15, 17 and 17 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 12 sections: 68 keep time, 23 are fills, 36 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-67.

PART D
PART K
PART N
PART B
PART U
CHORUS
PART AO
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesAEDBASU+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Worst of Both Worlds?

170 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 Worst of Both Worlds hard to play on drums?

58 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 of Both Worlds?

7 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 3, 7, 9, 11, 15, 17 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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