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For You · Killswitch Engage

EXERCISE 1 OF 75
Groove N -- Part N (a two-bar phrase)
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PART A
PART N
PART V
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART S12
PART AO
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesTAOQAN+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play For You on drums

183 bars at 182 BPM -- fast, and 3:40 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
182 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
183
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
51/100

ride through bars 1-2, kick and crashes through bars 3-5, snare through bars 6-16, ride through bars 17-23, snare through bars 24-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-40, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-27, 29-30 and 74-76, and 3 more places -- 11.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    100              101
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|x-------x-------|
SD |----------------|x---------------|
BD |x---------------|--------x-------|
For You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- N, Q -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 18-33 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part V -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is For You?

182 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 You hard to play on drums?

51 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

183 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 For You?

17 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 183 BARS ANALYSED