Away With Words · 7 Angels 7 Plagues

130 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:34 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 47-49, 51-54 and 76, and 1 more place -- 9.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
AWAY WITH WORDS · BAR 47
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 21 and 24 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 11 sections: 50 keep time, 30 are fills, 1 is a stop and 39 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 56-61.

PART C
PART G
CHORUS
PART AB
PART AD
PART AG
OUTRO
BREAK
10 groovesS11KABAGAM+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Away With Words?

190 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 Away With Words hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Away With Words?

17 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 21 and 24 more.

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