The Way Of The Fist · Five Finger Death Punch

192 bars at 194 BPM -- fast, and 3:58 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
194 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 105-119, 161-175 and 177-183 -- 19.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 194 BPM
THE WAY OF THE FIST · BAR 106
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 15, 16, 24, 32, 39 and 22 more.

LOOP · 194 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 194 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 194 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 194 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

192 bars across 15 sections: 131 keep time, 28 are fills and 11 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 106-119.

PART A
PART F
PART A
PART H
PART K
PART A
PART H
CHORUS
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesSHAMK+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Way Of The Fist?

194 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 The Way Of The Fist hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

192 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 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 Way Of The Fist?

10 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 15, 16, 24, 32, 39 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 192 BARS ANALYSED
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