No Hope = No Fear · Soulfly

95 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 3:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-20, 37-40 and 59-62 -- 13.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 102 BPM
NO HOPE = NO FEAR · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 12, 16, 24 and 27 more.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars across 12 sections: 45 keep time, 33 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 85-95.

PART C
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART S10
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesHCACIJ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is No Hope = No Fear?

102 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 No Hope = No Fear hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 No Hope = No Fear?

13 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 12, 16, 24 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED
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