Living Weapon · Warbringer

225 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 4:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
225
LENGTH
4:52
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-22 and 37-39, and 5 more places -- 10.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 185 BPM
LIVING WEAPON · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 50 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 1-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 32-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

225 bars across 29 sections: 128 keep time, 56 are fills, 10 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 113-120.

PART F
PART S
PART Z
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
PART Z
18 groovesIZSAKAL+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Living Weapon?

185 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 Living Weapon hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

225 bars, about 4:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 81 exercises over 24 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 Living Weapon?

17 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 50 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 225 BARS ANALYSED
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