Top Of The World · All-American Rejects

125 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 3:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-20, 37-40 and 57-62, and 5 more places -- 28.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 152 BPM
TOP OF THE WORLD · BAR 57
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 56, 80, 84, 88, 92 and 116.

LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 14 sections: 94 keep time, 6 are fills, 1 is a stop and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 64-79.

PART C
CHORUS
PART F
VERSE
PART J
PART L
VERSE 2
CHORUS 4
BREAK
VERSE 3
OUTRO
8 groovesEHLCJ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Top Of The World?

152 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 Top Of The World hard to play on drums?

51 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Top Of The World?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 56, 80, 84, 88, 92 and 116.

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