Force Your Way · The Black Mages

156 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33, 35 and 37, and 14 more places -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
FORCE YOUR WAY · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 16, 31, 32, 41, 49, 57 and 31 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 9 sections: 72 keep time, 37 are fills, 30 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-27.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART AM
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesASHEAS+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Force Your Way?

165 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 Your Way hard to play on drums?

52 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 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 Your Way?

20 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 16, 31, 32, 41, 49, 57 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED
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