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Flesh Bone and Weakness (Full) · Parkway Drive

EXERCISE 21 OF 69
Join Chorus to Part K (bars 55-57)
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0 / 69 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART K
PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART K
PART Q
PART X
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
15 groovesJQFCK+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 11
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Flesh Bone and Weakness (Full) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
199
LENGTH
5:41
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-3, ride through bars 4-5, silence through bars 6-8, ride through bars 9-24, snare through bars 25-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-56, and 23 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    50
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxx-------------|
Flesh Bone and Weakness (Full) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- J, F -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part F -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-182 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 53-67 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 60-73 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 64-82 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 77-105 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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