Weak And Powerless · A Perfect Circle

42 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 80 BPM, 3:09 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetalUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
42
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5, 7-8 and 13-16 -- 26.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 80 BPM
WEAK AND POWERLESS · BARS 7-8
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 3, 4, 8, 10, 12, 16 and 6 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

42 bars across 8 sections: 9 keep time, 12 are fills, 1 is a stop and 16 are silent.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
BREAK 2
6 groovesS8ADGS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Weak And Powerless?

80 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Weak And Powerless hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

42 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 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 Weak And Powerless?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 3, 4, 8, 10, 12, 16 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 42 BARS ANALYSED
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