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Betrayer · Kreator

EXERCISE 1 OF 47
Groove I -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Betrayer on drums

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.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
5:31
DIFFICULTY
72/100

toms through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-48, toms through bars 49-50, hi-hat through bars 51-75, snare through bars 76-82 and hi-hat through bars 83-86, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o-------o-------o-------o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
Betrayer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- I -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AH -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 10 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 38-70 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and Part AH -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 93-101 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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