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What Drives The Weak · Shadows Fall

What Drives The Weak · Shadows Fall
EXERCISE 18 OF 89
Groove P (a two-bar phrase)
93 / 200 BARS COVERED
0 / 89 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART O
PART U
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART O
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
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 7
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play What Drives The Weak on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
200
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
57/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-9, snare through bars 10-15, ride through bars 16-17, snare through bars 18-23 and ride through bars 24-25, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    12               13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|--xx----xxxx----|
What Drives The Weak -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 71 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 -- I, O -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part U -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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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