Aimless Arrow · Converge

125 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 163 BPM, 2:21 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
163 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
2:21
DIFFICULTY
94/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-40, 42-44 and 46-48, and 7 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 163 BPM
AIMLESS ARROW · BAR 38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 2, 10, 17, 21, 23, 24 and 26 more.

LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 13 sections: 76 keep time and 32 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-44.

PART A
PART K
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART AA
PART A
PART AD
9 groovesSKAADAA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Aimless Arrow?

163 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Aimless Arrow hard to play on drums?

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 2:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 21 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Aimless Arrow?

13 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 2, 10, 17, 21, 23, 24 and 26 more.

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