Only For The Weak (In Drop C) · In Flames

128 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 4:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 21 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 105 BPM
ONLY FOR THE WEAK (IN DROP C) · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 13 sections: 110 keep time and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-24.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART A
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDGABS10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Only For The Weak (In Drop C)?

105 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 Only For The Weak (In Drop C) hard to play on drums?

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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.

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