Thirty One & Sevens · I Killed The Prom Queen

160 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:21 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-16, 21-24 and 65-68, and 3 more places -- 16% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 185 BPM
THIRTY ONE & SEVENS · BARS 13-14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

24 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 12, 19, 20, 33, 37, 41 and 29 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38

20 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 25 sections: 79 keep time, 37 are fills, 8 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 149-154.

COUNT-IN
PART N
PART Q
PART AE
PART AO
PART AS
OUTRO 2
14 groovesDBQASAZ+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Thirty One & Sevens?

185 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 Thirty One & Sevens 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 16 sittings, about 29 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 Thirty One & Sevens?

24 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 12, 19, 20, 33, 37, 41 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED
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