No Sympathy For Fools · Behemoth

177 bars at 188 BPM -- fast, and 3:46 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
188 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-10, 13-20 and 49-54, and 15 more places -- 39.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 188 BPM
NO SYMPATHY FOR FOOLS · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 1, 2, 11, 12, 23, 24 and 46 more.

LOOP · 188 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 188 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 188 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 188 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

177 bars across 14 sections: 111 keep time, 52 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 142-156.

CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART AA
CHORUS 3
PART AA
PART AA
OUTRO
8 groovesDAAKGQ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is No Sympathy For Fools?

188 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 No Sympathy For Fools hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 Sympathy For Fools?

16 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 1, 2, 11, 12, 23, 24 and 46 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED
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