Translating The Name (2003 EP) · SAOSIN

125 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:08 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5 and 7, and 23 more places -- 30.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 160 BPM
TRANSLATING THE NAME (2003 EP) · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 6, 8, 16, 17, 18, 26 and 41 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 16-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 8 sections: 59 keep time, 47 are fills and 8 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 101-107.

CHORUS
PART E
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesABEJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Translating The Name (2003 EP)?

160 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 Translating The Name (2003 EP) 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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 Translating The Name (2003 EP)?

20 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 6, 8, 16, 17, 18, 26 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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