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Fear Is The Weakness · In Flames

EXERCISE 7 OF 60
Groove E -- Part E
99 / 178 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART U
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesPBKGS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 9
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fear Is The Weakness on drums

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.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-40, hi-hat through bars 41-56, snare through bars 57-88, hi-hat through bars 89-122 and snare through bars 123-178.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |--xxx-x-xxx-x-xx|
Fear Is The Weakness -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P, K -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part E and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 45-57 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 69-93 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part U -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED