A Trigger Full Of Promises · Walls Of Jericho

145 bars at 204 BPM -- fast, and 2:51 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
204 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-26, 28-34 and 90-96, and 1 more place -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 204 BPM
A TRIGGER FULL OF PROMISES · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 48 and 13 more.

LOOP · 204 BPM
BARS 35-39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 204 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 204 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 204 BPM
BARS 88-89 · LANDS ON BAR 90 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 15 sections: 99 keep time, 19 are fills, 11 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-34.

PART B
CHORUS
PART L
PART P
PART R
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART AA
OUTRO
11 groovesELADPB+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Trigger Full Of Promises?

204 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 A Trigger Full Of Promises hard to play on drums?

55 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 A Trigger Full Of Promises?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 48 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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