The Saw Is The Law · Whitechapel

125 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 4:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal90 to 119 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 15 more places -- 15.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 115 BPM
THE SAW IS THE LAW · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 5, 19, 23, 25, 26, 27 and 23 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 25-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 16 sections: 71 keep time, 29 are fills, 2 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-18.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART H
PART S8
PART AC
PART AF
PART J
CHORUS 5
OUTRO 2
10 groovesBHAKJAC+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Saw Is The Law?

115 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Saw Is The Law hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 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 The Saw Is The Law?

13 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 5, 19, 23, 25, 26, 27 and 23 more.

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