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Words As Weapons · Seether

EXERCISE 6 OF 36
Groove D -- Part D
38 / 104 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, CHORUS
PART A
BREAK
PART D
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Words As Weapons on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
59/100

toms through bars 1-8, silence through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48 and snare through bars 49-56, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x----x--x---|
BD |x--x---x--xx-x-x|
Words As Weapons -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- G -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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