This Is Who We Are · As I Lay Dying

188 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
188
LENGTH
5:01
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 64-66, 68-70 and 72-74, and 7 more places -- 23.2% 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
THIS IS WHO WE ARE · BAR 64
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 22, 26, 30, 34, 38, 42 and 18 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

188 bars across 14 sections: 82 keep time, 24 are fills, 47 are stops and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-61.

COUNT-IN
PART F
PART K
CHORUS
PART F
PART S
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
12 groovesOS14FS1K+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is This Is Who We Are?

150 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 This Is Who We Are hard to play on drums?

49 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

188 bars, about 5:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 This Is Who We Are?

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 22, 26, 30, 34, 38, 42 and 18 more.

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