Thoughtless · Korn

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 4:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

MetalAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-29, 31 and 45-49, and 3 more places -- 32.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 77 BPM
THOUGHTLESS · BARS 25-26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 24, 30, 32, 44, 50, 78 and 1 more.

LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 86 · LANDS ON BAR 87
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 13 sections: 65 keep time, 7 are fills, 1 is a stop and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-17.

PART F
PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART F
OUTRO
9 groovesJFHBC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Thoughtless?

77 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Thoughtless hard to play on drums?

61 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Thoughtless?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 24, 30, 32, 44, 50, 78 and 1 more.

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