Only For The Weak · 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 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-8 and 11-12, and 10 more places -- 48% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 105 BPM
ONLY FOR THE WEAK · BAR 71
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 21, 25, 29, 33, 50, 54 and 6 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 9 sections: 96 keep time, 12 are fills, 6 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 105-128.

CHORUS
PART C
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART G
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesACGMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Only For The Weak?

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 hard to play on drums?

50 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 32 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 24 exercises over 7 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 Only For The Weak?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 21, 25, 29, 33, 50, 54 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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