The Weakest · Emery

151 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:31 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 15 more places -- 13.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
THE WEAKEST · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 4, 6, 12, 14, 16, 32 and 22 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

151 bars across 18 sections: 75 keep time, 28 are fills, 21 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-31.

CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART R
CHORUS 4
PART S12
PART R
OUTRO 2
13 groovesARKAQS12+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Weakest?

170 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 Weakest 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Weakest?

15 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 4, 6, 12, 14, 16, 32 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED
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