theme of us · cinema staff

157 bars at 186 BPM -- fast, and 3:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
186 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-39, 41-42 and 57, and 7 more places -- 13.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 186 BPM
THEME OF US · BAR 38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 11, 12, 24, 28, 33, 34 and 38 more.

LOOP · 186 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 186 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 186 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 186 BPM
BARS 33-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 8 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

157 bars across 16 sections: 81 keep time, 44 are fills, 12 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 81-87.

PART C
PART I
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART AF
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesPICJR+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is theme of us?

186 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is theme of us 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 17 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 theme of us?

18 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 11, 12, 24, 28, 33, 34 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED
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