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Forgiveness is Weakness (with Drums) · Whitechapel

EXERCISE 12 OF 66
Groove AA -- Part AA (a two-bar phrase)
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PART S2
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART AA
PART AA
PART AK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGOAKAAAT+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Forgiveness is Weakness (with Drums) on drums

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

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
53/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-15, toms through bars 16-17, hi-hat through bars 18-33 and snare through bars 34-40, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-xxxxxxxxxxxx|
Forgiveness is Weakness (with Drums) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- G -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 7-29 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part O and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part O and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 58-67 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 67-76 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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