"Force Meets Presence" · Converge

103 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 176 BPM, 2:00 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
2:00
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 48-50, 52-54 and 80-82, and 1 more place -- 12% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 176 BPM
"FORCE MEETS PRESENCE" · BAR 49
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 27, 47, 51, 55, 64 and 11 more.

LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 11 sections: 46 keep time, 17 are fills, 26 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-39.

PART C
PART O
PART Q
CHORUS
PART W
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesSCQWO+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is "Force Meets Presence"?

176 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is "Force Meets Presence" hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 90 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 2:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 "Force Meets Presence"?

12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 27, 47, 51, 55, 64 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
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