Writing On The Walls · Underoath

174 bars at 184 BPM -- fast, and 3:47 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-51, 58-59 and 70-71, and 19 more places -- 19.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 184 BPM
WRITING ON THE WALLS · BAR 116
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 21, 22, 23, 29, 30, 31 and 30 more.

LOOP · 184 BPM
BARS 21-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BARS 47-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

174 bars across 12 sections: 46 keep time, 36 are fills, 50 are stops and 36 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 60-64.

PART C
PART H
PART S
CHORUS
PART AN
OUTRO
11 groovesQS11HSAN+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Writing On The Walls?

184 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 Writing On The Walls hard to play on drums?

47 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Writing On The Walls?

20 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 21, 22, 23, 29, 30, 31 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED
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