Strength Through Wounding · AFI

62 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 1:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
1:20
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-10, 13-14 and 17-18, and 3 more places -- 21.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 185 BPM
STRENGTH THROUGH WOUNDING · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 7, 8, 32, 54, 61 and 62.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 61-62 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

62 bars across 6 sections: 44 keep time, 6 are fills and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-31.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesELJMS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Strength Through Wounding?

185 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 Strength Through Wounding hard to play on drums?

55 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 1:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 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 Strength Through Wounding?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 7, 8, 32, 54, 61 and 62.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 62 BARS ANALYSED
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