"God Is A Weapon" · FR Falling In Reverse

120 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-23 and 41-63 -- 38.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 135 BPM
"GOD IS A WEAPON" · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 24, 64, 84, 85, 88, 89 and 17 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 84-85 · LANDS ON BAR 86 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 88-93 · LANDS ON BAR 94 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 6 sections: 71 keep time, 23 are fills and 21 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 40-63.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAECSFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is "God Is A Weapon"?

135 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 "God Is A Weapon" hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 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 "God Is A Weapon"?

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 24, 64, 84, 85, 88, 89 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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