Backstabber · Dystopia

83 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 2:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
2:09
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 22, 24 and 26, and 13 more places -- 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 · 155 BPM
BACKSTABBER · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 13, 20, 21, 40, 42 and 12 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 12 sections: 51 keep time, 18 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-36.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART Q
PART T
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesLQBDT+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Backstabber?

155 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 Backstabber 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 2:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 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 Backstabber?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 13, 20, 21, 40, 42 and 12 more.

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