Words As Weapons · Seether

104 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 49-51, and 5 more places -- 27% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 110 BPM
WORDS AS WEAPONS · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 48, 52, 56 and 14 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 64-71 · LANDS ON BAR 72 · PLAYED 8 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 9 sections: 64 keep time, 20 are fills and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-47.

PART A
BREAK
CHORUS
PART N
BREAK 2
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGNAS2S6+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Words As Weapons?

110 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 Words As Weapons hard to play on drums?

59 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?

104 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Words As Weapons?

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 48, 52, 56 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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