Underclass Hero · Sum 41

154 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 3:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-37, 39-40 and 43-45, and 13 more places -- 26.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 192 BPM
UNDERCLASS HERO · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 33, 41, 49 and 11 more.

LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 11 sections: 121 keep time, 17 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 114-128.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART I
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBIDPMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Underclass Hero?

192 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 Underclass Hero hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 13 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Underclass Hero?

5 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 33, 41, 49 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED
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