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Counterweight · Heaven Shall Burn

EXERCISE 33 OF 45
Run L1 · Part L (bars 105-108)
102 / 177 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART L
PART W
OUTRO 2
14 groovesBWCAF+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Counterweight on drums

177 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 4:01 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
4:01
DIFFICULTY
64/100

ride through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-24, ride through bars 25-40, snare through bars 41-48, toms through bars 49-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-56, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9-14 and 41-48, and 5 more places -- 28.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Counterweight -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 30, 32, 40, 80, 96, 108 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-41 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 37-54 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 53-76 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Bars 77-109 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 105-146 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Counterweight?

176 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 Counterweight hard to play on drums?

64 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 4:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Counterweight?

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 30, 32, 40, 80, 96, 108 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED