"White Washed" · AUGUST BURNS RED

164 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 5:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
5:34
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 56, 59 and 62, and 9 more places -- 13.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 122 BPM
"WHITE WASHED" · BAR 133
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 12, 20, 24, 29, 30, 38 and 14 more.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 122 BPM
BARS 29-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

164 bars across 20 sections: 97 keep time, 20 are fills, 16 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 105-113.

PART P
CHORUS
CHORUS 3
PART AQ
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
15 groovesTKDAQAZ+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is "White Washed"?

122 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 "White Washed" hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 5:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 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 "White Washed"?

14 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 12, 20, 24, 29, 30, 38 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED
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