Understanding In A Car Crash · Thursday

174 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 4:14 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 6 and 10, and 19 more places -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 164 BPM
UNDERSTANDING IN A CAR CRASH · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 5, 13, 41, 49, 97, 105 and 3 more.

LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 133 · LANDS ON BAR 134 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 149 · LANDS ON BAR 150
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

174 bars across 16 sections: 120 keep time, 9 are fills and 21 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 79-91.

CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBQNSJ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Understanding In A Car Crash?

164 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 Understanding In A Car Crash hard to play on drums?

57 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?

174 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Understanding In A Car Crash?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 5, 13, 41, 49, 97, 105 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED
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