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A Trigger Full Of Promises · Walls Of Jericho

A Trigger Full Of Promises · Walls Of Jericho
EXERCISE 10 OF 58
Groove K
79 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART L, PART R
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Trigger Full Of Promises on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
204 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
55/100

toms through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-9, snare through bars 10-14, silence through bars 15-17, snare through bars 18-19 and hi-hat through bars 20-26, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    28
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--x---x---x---x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
A Trigger Full Of Promises -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- E, L -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-24 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part L and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part P -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part P and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 72-93 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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