Tulips Are Better · Atreyu

147 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:28 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-24, 31-32 and 39, and 6 more places -- 33.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 170 BPM
TULIPS ARE BETTER · BAR 130
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 56, 80, 84, 100, 102 and 120.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85
LOOP · 170 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

147 bars across 13 sections: 114 keep time, 6 are fills, 9 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-45.

PART C
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART T
PART Z
OUTRO 2
10 groovesFGCNT+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tulips Are Better?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Tulips Are Better hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Tulips Are Better?

6 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 56, 80, 84, 100, 102 and 120.

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