Facepalm Mute · Periphery

105 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 3 more places -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
FACEPALM MUTE · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25 and 40 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 8 sections: 49 keep time, 47 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 71-74.

CHORUS
PART H
PART Z
CHORUS 2
PART AP
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBZHXAPFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Facepalm Mute?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Facepalm Mute hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Facepalm Mute?

17 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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