Betray me · Starosta

128 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 2:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 43-45, and 1 more place -- 9.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BETRAY ME · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 12, 16, 20 and 15 more.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BARS 6-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 12 sections: 78 keep time, 21 are fills and 12 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-39.

PART A
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesOFJACZ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Betray me?

195 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 Betray me hard to play on drums?

63 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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 Betray me?

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 12, 16, 20 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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