Heavy Is The Head That Falls With The Weight Of A Thousand Thoughts · Loathe

138 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 3:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 17-23, and 1 more place -- 22.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 168 BPM
HEAVY IS THE HEAD THAT FALLS WITH THE WEIGHT OF A THOUSAND THOUGHTS · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 52, 56 and 11 more.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 11 sections: 74 keep time, 17 are fills, 22 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 64-76.

CHORUS
PART S2
PART F
PART L
PART R
PART N
PART AE
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesANRLS11+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heavy Is The Head That Falls With The Weight Of A Thousand Thoughts?

168 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Heavy Is The Head That Falls With The Weight Of A Thousand Thoughts hard to play on drums?

61 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 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Heavy Is The Head That Falls With The Weight Of A Thousand Thoughts?

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 52, 56 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED
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