Betrayer · Kreator

136 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 5:31 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
5:31
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 18-20, and 10 more places -- 35.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BETRAYER · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 13 and 32 more.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 15 sections: 70 keep time, 39 are fills, 9 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-28.

PART G
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART N
PART AN
CHORUS 4
8 groovesINAHANG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Betrayer?

98 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Betrayer hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 5:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 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 Betrayer?

10 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 13 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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