Goliaths Disarm Their Davids · In Flames

176 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 4:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
4:55
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 63-67, 69-75 and 93-99, and 5 more places -- 32.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 143 BPM
GOLIATHS DISARM THEIR DAVIDS · BAR 67
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 24, 28, 36, 44, 52, 60 and 11 more.

LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

176 bars across 13 sections: 118 keep time, 17 are fills, 27 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 160-175.

PART A
PART I
PART K
PART I
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesPIKAE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Goliaths Disarm Their Davids?

143 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 Goliaths Disarm Their Davids 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 4:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Goliaths Disarm Their Davids?

14 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 24, 28, 36, 44, 52, 60 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED
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