Thetawaves · System of a Down

83 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 2:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

MetalAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-27, 45-52 and 76-82 -- 27.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 125 BPM
THETAWAVES · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 16, 37, 44, 68 and 83.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 83
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 8 sections: 68 keep time and 5 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-13.

PART A
CHORUS
PART C
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGEAKCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Thetawaves?

125 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 Thetawaves hard to play on drums?

55 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 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Thetawaves?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 16, 37, 44, 68 and 83.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED
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