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Force of Hand · State of Ruin

EXERCISE 21 OF 40
Groove O
166 / 184 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Force of Hand on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
183
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
63/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-50, snare through bars 51-67, toms through bars 68-69, ride through bars 70-85 and hi-hat through bars 86-117, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Force of Hand -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K, A -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-25 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part K -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part K and the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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