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God Is A Weapon Ft. Marilyn Manson · Falling In Reverse

EXERCISE 12 OF 29
Groove F
41 / 61 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCAINFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play God Is A Weapon Ft. Marilyn Manson on drums

61 bars, 3:32, at 68 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
68 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 1-12, snare through bars 13-20, hi-hat through bars 21-24, snare through bars 25-26, hi-hat through bars 27-32 and snare through bars 33-40, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-11, 21-24 and 27-31 -- 32.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    1
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-------------------x-----------|
God Is A Weapon Ft. Marilyn Manson -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 40, 45, 55, 56, 57, 60 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- A, C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 48-54 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is God Is A Weapon Ft. Marilyn Manson?

68 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is God Is A Weapon Ft. Marilyn Manson hard to play on drums?

57 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 9 sittings, about 22 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 Ft. Marilyn Manson?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 40, 45, 55, 56, 57, 60 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED