The Arms Of Sorrow · Killswitch Engage

121 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 21 and 26, and 6 more places -- 25.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 124 BPM
THE ARMS OF SORROW · BAR 98
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 11, 17, 18, 20, 22, 23 and 20 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 124 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 124 BPM
BARS 22-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 14 sections: 53 keep time, 26 are fills, 15 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 83-88.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART A
PART L
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART S10
PART V
OUTRO 2
11 groovesPDLCS1+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Arms Of Sorrow?

124 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 The Arms Of Sorrow hard to play on drums?

48 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 The Arms Of Sorrow?

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 11, 17, 18, 20, 22, 23 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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