Force of Hand · State of Ruin

183 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 3:03 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
183
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 23-25 and 27-29, and 13 more places -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 240 BPM
FORCE OF HAND · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 22, 30, 58, 66, 68, 69 and 12 more.

LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

184 bars across 14 sections: 125 keep time, 19 are fills, 28 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-16.

PART D
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART B
CHORUS 4
10 groovesFKBDS2+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Force of Hand?

240 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 Force of Hand hard to play on drums?

63 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 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

183 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 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 of Hand?

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 22, 30, 58, 66, 68, 69 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 183 BARS ANALYSED
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