Worthless · Chimaira

177 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-35, 37-42 and 73-79, and 2 more places -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
WORTHLESS · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 41 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 1-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 17-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

177 bars across 16 sections: 88 keep time, 47 are fills, 28 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-16.

PART F
CHORUS
PART W
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART AQ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesPFWASAQ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Worthless?

190 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 Worthless hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 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 Worthless?

20 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED
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