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Welcome to the Circus · Five Finger Death Punch

EXERCISE 15 OF 50
Fill at bar 37 (a small one)
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0 / 50 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Welcome to the Circus on drums

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.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-9, toms through bars 10-13, snare through bars 14-21, hi-hat through bars 22-52, snare through bars 53-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-109, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    38
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Welcome to the Circus -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 11-23 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-33 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 54-74 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 66-95 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 4 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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