No Weapon Formed Shall Prosper · Eidola

139 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 40-46, 48-50 and 52-54, and 3 more places -- 19.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
NO WEAPON FORMED SHALL PROSPER · BARS 40-41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 48 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 5-11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 13-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 13 sections: 59 keep time, 54 are fills, 13 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 91-98.

PART B
PART L
CHORUS
PART AF
PART AI
PART AO
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesZDLBAI+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is No Weapon Formed Shall Prosper?

145 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 Weapon Formed Shall Prosper hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 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 No Weapon Formed Shall Prosper?

21 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 48 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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