Bow Down · I Prevail

157 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 4:02 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
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 37 and 39, and 14 more places -- 12.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BOW DOWN · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 8, 11, 12, 16, 19, 20 and 36 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 29-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

157 bars across 21 sections: 63 keep time, 42 are fills, 13 are stops and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-28.

PART A
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
PART D
PART V
CHORUS 2
BREAK 3
OUTRO 2
14 groovesIADS12V+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bow Down?

155 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 Bow Down hard to play on drums?

53 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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 Bow Down?

15 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 8, 11, 12, 16, 19, 20 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED
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