Take This Oath · Killswitch Engage

189 bars at 184 BPM -- fast, and 3:46 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 173-187 -- 8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 184 BPM
TAKE THIS OATH · BAR 173
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 32, 40, 48, 70, 84 and 6 more.

LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

189 bars across 14 sections: 112 keep time, 12 are fills, 50 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 173-188.

PART H
PART K
PART D
PART R
PART E
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesZKAIED+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Take This Oath?

184 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 Take This Oath 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

189 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 15 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 Take This Oath?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 32, 40, 48, 70, 84 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 189 BARS ANALYSED
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