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No Sympathy For Fools · Behemoth

EXERCISE 14 OF 61
Join Chorus to Part G (bars 19-21)
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0 / 61 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART G
CHORUS
PART G
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play No Sympathy For Fools on drums

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.

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
188 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
81/100

hi-hat through bars 1-10, toms through bars 11-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, ride through bars 21-40, hi-hat through bars 41-42 and ride through bars 43-44, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
No Sympathy For Fools -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-29 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part G and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 29-52 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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