Faithless · Black Veil Brides

100 bars of 4/4 at a walking 83 BPM, 4:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetalcore / HardcoreUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 39-41, and 1 more place -- 12.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 83 BPM
FAITHLESS · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28 and 20 more.

LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 19 sections: 44 keep time, 26 are fills, 7 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 72-76.

PART B
CHORUS
PART K
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART M
PART AB
PART M
PART AK
OUTRO 2
15 groovesGMKPAK+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Faithless?

83 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 Faithless 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 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 21 sittings, about 24 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 Faithless?

17 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28 and 20 more.

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