This Is Now · Hatebreed

160 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 3:38 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 13 more places -- 32.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 176 BPM
THIS IS NOW · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 40, 72 and 144.

LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 10 sections: 129 keep time, 3 are fills, 6 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-23.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCEIS1S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is This Is Now?

176 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 This Is Now hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in This Is Now?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 40, 72 and 144.

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