Facewreck · No Retreat

89 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 2:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
2:18
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-50 and 63-70 -- 20.3% 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
FACEWRECK · BAR 64
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 2, 7, 8, 41, 42, 51 and 6 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 41-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 51-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 12 sections: 52 keep time, 12 are fills, 6 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 81-88.

PART S2
PART G
PART J
PART G
PART S7
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesNGKPJ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Facewreck?

155 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Facewreck hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 2:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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 Facewreck?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 2, 7, 8, 41, 42, 51 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED
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