We Are 138 · Misfits

74 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 1:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

PunkRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
1:58
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-19, 26-27 and 34, and 3 more places -- 23.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
WE ARE 138 · BARS 18-19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 25 and 45.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 8 sections: 57 keep time, 2 are fills, 2 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-41.

PART B
CHORUS
PART I
PART K
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFBKIM+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is We Are 138?

150 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 We Are 138 hard to play on drums?

64 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 1:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 We Are 138?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 25 and 45.

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