Ascendancy · Trivium

225 bars at 212 BPM -- fast, and 4:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
212 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
225
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-51, 55 and 89-91, and 11 more places -- 14.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 212 BPM
ASCENDANCY · BAR 49
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 2, 4, 12, 14, 16, 20 and 42 more.

LOOP · 212 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 212 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 212 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 212 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

225 bars across 25 sections: 102 keep time, 48 are fills, 51 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 146-160.

PART A
PART G
PART J
PART Y
CHORUS 5
PART Y
OUTRO 2
9 groovesLYJPG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ascendancy?

212 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 Ascendancy hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

225 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 Ascendancy?

15 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 2, 4, 12, 14, 16, 20 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 225 BARS ANALYSED
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