Father Of Lies · Whitechapel

206 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 3:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
206
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 169, 171 and 175-177, and 7 more places -- 12.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 220 BPM
FATHER OF LIES · BARS 175-176
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

25 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 1, 2, 7, 13, 15, 17 and 49 more.

LOOP · 220 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20

21 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

206 bars across 13 sections: 105 keep time, 55 are fills, 32 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 52-63.

PART H
CHORUS
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART AL
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesPAWATALS+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Father Of Lies?

220 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 Father Of Lies hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

206 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 21 sittings, about 27 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 Father Of Lies?

25 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 1, 2, 7, 13, 15, 17 and 49 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 206 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Whitechapel drum parts

EVERY WHITECHAPEL CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →