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The Way Of The Fist · Five Finger Death Punch

EXERCISE 16 OF 60
Groove F -- Part F
115 / 192 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Way Of The Fist on drums

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.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
194 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
69/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, ride through bars 33-40, snare through bars 41-56 and ride through bars 57-64, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    106
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
The Way Of The Fist -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- S -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Bars 10-42 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 14-49 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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