Welcome to the Circus · Five Finger Death Punch

146 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 61% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18-20 and 30-32, and 23 more places -- 60.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 140 BPM
WELCOME TO THE CIRCUS · BAR 38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 17, 29, 37, 41, 45, 49 and 21 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 8 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

146 bars across 13 sections: 47 keep time, 27 are fills, 50 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-28.

COUNT-IN
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART N
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDFS1AN+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Welcome to the Circus?

140 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 Welcome to the Circus hard to play on drums?

54 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 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 Welcome to the Circus?

12 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 17, 29, 37, 41, 45, 49 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED
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