Fear Is The Weakness · In Flames

178 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 25-31 and 57-63, and 9 more places -- 25.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 190 BPM
FEAR IS THE WEAKNESS · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 24, 32, 40, 56, 72, 80 and 11 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

178 bars across 13 sections: 123 keep time, 17 are fills, 7 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 147-159.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART U
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesPBKGS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fear Is The Weakness?

190 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 Fear Is The Weakness hard to play on drums?

57 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 11 sittings, about 29 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 Fear Is The Weakness?

14 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 24, 32, 40, 56, 72, 80 and 11 more.

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