Lacking the Ability to Process Empathy · Nails

81 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 2:03 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
2:03
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 18-20 and 22-24 -- 16% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 158 BPM
LACKING THE ABILITY TO PROCESS EMPATHY · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 25, 27, 29 and 13 more.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 2-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 10 sections: 43 keep time, 19 are fills and 7 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-65.

PART E
PART H
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART S
OUTRO
6 groovesLOHES+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lacking the Ability to Process Empathy?

158 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 Lacking the Ability to Process Empathy hard to play on drums?

54 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 2:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Lacking the Ability to Process Empathy?

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 25, 27, 29 and 13 more.

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