Wither · Counterparts

144 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 2:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 112-118, 120-126 and 128-134, and 1 more place -- 17.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 210 BPM
WITHER · BARS 112-113
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 24, 25, 27, 29, 33, 37 and 20 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 39-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 10 sections: 63 keep time, 26 are fills, 32 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-59.

PART D
PART J
CHORUS
PART AC
PART A
OUTRO
10 groovesPAXAACJ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wither?

210 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 Wither 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Wither?

14 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 24, 25, 27, 29, 33, 37 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
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