The Writer · Breakdown Of Sanity

172 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 19-21 and 23-25 -- 7.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
THE WRITER · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 16, 18, 29, 40, 48, 52 and 14 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

172 bars across 18 sections: 103 keep time, 20 are fills, 17 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 108-119.

CHORUS
PART Q
PART AH
PART AL
PART AP
PART N
PART BG
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
17 groovesDQAPBPN+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Writer?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Writer hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 25 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Writer?

13 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 16, 18, 29, 40, 48, 52 and 14 more.

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