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The Arms Of Sorrow · Killswitch Engage

EXERCISE 28 OF 55
Groove K -- Part K
75 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART K
COUNT-IN
PART C
PART A
PART L
CHORUS
PART K
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Arms Of Sorrow on drums

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

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

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-33, toms through bars 34-41, snare through bars 42-56, toms through bars 57-65 and snare through bars 66-74, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|
The Arms Of Sorrow -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- D, P -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-41 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part C -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part A and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 37-58 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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