For Want Of · Rites Of Spring

160 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:12 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcorePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 45 more places -- 30.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 200 BPM
FOR WANT OF · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 8 sections: 138 keep time, 1 is a fill and 13 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-47.

PART C
CHORUS
PART G
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDFCGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is For Want Of?

200 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 For Want Of hard to play on drums?

54 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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