Without A Face · Rage Against The Machine

91 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3, 5-10 and 12-14, and 3 more places -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 92 BPM
WITHOUT A FACE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 68, 69, 70 and 88.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BARS 68-70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 7 sections: 75 keep time, 4 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 73-87.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGBQCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Without A Face?

92 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Without A Face hard to play on drums?

61 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 9 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Without A Face?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 68, 69, 70 and 88.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED
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