What Drives The Weak · Shadows Fall

200 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:41 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
200
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-14, 18-22 and 58-62, and 5 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
WHAT DRIVES THE WEAK · BARS 12-13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 36 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

200 bars across 16 sections: 125 keep time, 42 are fills and 11 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-48.

CHORUS
PART U
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART AD
CHORUS 3
PART AK
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
12 groovesIAKULAD+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is What Drives The Weak?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is What Drives The Weak hard to play on drums?

57 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

200 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 22 sittings, about 25 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 What Drives The Weak?

17 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 200 BARS ANALYSED
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