In Spite Of · XweaponX

65 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 1:34 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
1:34
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 41-43 and 45-47, and 2 more places -- 17.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
IN SPITE OF · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 16, 17, 18, 24, 28 and 4 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 16-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

65 bars across 8 sections: 33 keep time, 10 are fills, 12 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-38.

PART A
PART F
PART J
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
7 groovesLAFPS8+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In Spite Of?

165 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 In Spite Of hard to play on drums?

49 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 1:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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 In Spite Of?

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 16, 17, 18, 24, 28 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED
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