We Are One · Whitechapel

119 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 5% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 22, 62-64 and 66-67 -- 5.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
WE ARE ONE · BARS 63-64
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

26 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11 and 42 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 1-3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12

22 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 16 sections: 51 keep time, 48 are fills, 3 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 98-103.

PART D
PART J
CHORUS
PART AD
PART AJ
PART D
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART BC
PART BF
PART AP
PART BM
OUTRO
14 groovesUDJBMAJ+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is We Are One?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 We Are One hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in We Are One?

26 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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