Who Are You Now · Sleeping With Sirens

171 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 3:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcorePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-23, 25-30 and 77-83, and 1 more place -- 17.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 172 BPM
WHO ARE YOU NOW · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 40, 56, 64, 84, 92 and 4 more.

LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 124 · LANDS ON BAR 125
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

171 bars across 20 sections: 62 keep time, 11 are fills, 63 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-31.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 4
PART Q
OUTRO 2
10 groovesADIQM+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Who Are You Now?

172 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 Who Are You Now hard to play on drums?

60 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 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Who Are You Now?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 40, 56, 64, 84, 92 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED
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