Forgiveness is Weakness (with Drums) · Whitechapel

107 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-15 and 18, and 6 more places -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
FORGIVENESS IS WEAKNESS (WITH DRUMS) · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 4, 7, 13, 16, 17, 19 and 46 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 12 sections: 39 keep time, 52 are fills, 5 are stops and 2 are silent.

PART S2
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART AA
PART AK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGOAKAAAT+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Forgiveness is Weakness (with Drums)?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Forgiveness is Weakness (with Drums) hard to play on drums?

53 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?

107 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Forgiveness is Weakness (with Drums)?

19 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 4, 7, 13, 16, 17, 19 and 46 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED
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