Would You Still Be There · Of Mice & Men

76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 3:10 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-26, 41-48 and 65-67, and 1 more place -- 30.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 96 BPM
WOULD YOU STILL BE THERE · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 17, 18, 30, 39, 60 and 64.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 11 sections: 53 keep time, 6 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-16.

PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART B
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHEBOR+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Would You Still Be There?

96 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 Would You Still Be There hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Would You Still Be There?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 17, 18, 30, 39, 60 and 64.

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