Twenty One Pilots · 2015 · drums by Josh Dun
Stressed Out
From Blurryface. Beginner · Half-time · pop
Tempo
86BPM
- Time signature
- 4/4
- Feel
- Half-time
- Tempo band
- Under 90
- Difficulty
- Beginner
Counted with the backbeat on two and four. Databases listing 170 are counting the eighth-note pulse.
"Work up to it" opens the tempo trainer at 56 and climbs to 86 in steps of four every eight bars. Members get the climb; everyone gets the click.
What the drums do
A hip-hop-feel backbeat with the kick placed around the bass line and Dun's trademark crash-on-the-backbeat in the choruses. Slow, loud and simple; the fills are the sixteenth-note snare bursts before each chorus.
Beginner: A steady beat and a fill or two — first-gig material.
Josh Dun
- Read the Josh Dun feature →Who they are, how they play, and what to listen to next.
- Josh Dun's drum rig in the Rig Vault →The kit, snare, cymbals and hardware, era by era — look for the 2015 setup.
- Log the sessionNote the BPM you got it clean at, and next time starts from there.
More Josh Dun songs
Songs at about 86 BPM
Practise these together: one click, several songs.