Flesh Bone and Weakness (Full) · Parkway Drive

199 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
199
LENGTH
5:41
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-56, 64 and 147, and 14 more places -- 16.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
FLESH BONE AND WEAKNESS (FULL) · BAR 50
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 24, 32, 40, 48, 66, 70 and 9 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

199 bars across 20 sections: 134 keep time, 15 are fills, 26 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-23.

PART C
PART F
PART Q
PART X
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
15 groovesJQFCK+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Flesh Bone and Weakness (Full)?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Flesh Bone and Weakness (Full) hard to play on drums?

55 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

199 bars, about 5:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 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 Flesh Bone and Weakness (Full)?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 24, 32, 40, 48, 66, 70 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 199 BARS ANALYSED
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