This Suffering · Billy Talent

160 bars at 161 BPM -- fast, and 3:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
161 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-47, 77-92 and 99, and 3 more places -- 37.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 161 BPM
THIS SUFFERING · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 40, 76, 98, 100, 106 and 3 more.

LOOP · 161 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 161 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 161 BPM
BAR 98 · LANDS ON BAR 99 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 161 BPM
BAR 100 · LANDS ON BAR 101

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 13 sections: 114 keep time, 9 are fills, 18 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 134-156.

PART D
PART G
CHORUS
PART D
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART S11
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesJDGKS11+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is This Suffering?

161 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 This Suffering hard to play on drums?

53 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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 This Suffering?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 40, 76, 98, 100, 106 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED
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