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Only For The Weak Ver. 2 · In Flames

EXERCISE 1 OF 19
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART F
OUTRO
3 groovesAFS7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Only For The Weak Ver. 2 on drums

129 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 4:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
4:55
DIFFICULTY
47/100

snare through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-25, ride through bars 26-33, snare through bars 34-42, hi-hat through bars 43-54 and ride through bars 55-62, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8, 10-12 and 14-20, and 12 more places -- 69.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x-----|
Only For The Weak Ver. 2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 9, 21, 25, 29, 33, 42 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Only For The Weak Ver. 2?

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 Ver. 2 hard to play on drums?

47 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?

129 bars, about 4:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 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 Ver. 2?

4 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 9, 21, 25, 29, 33, 42 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED