Betrayer · Trivium

259 bars at 194 BPM -- fast, and 5:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
194 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
259
LENGTH
5:20
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-8, 51-53 and 83-87, and 2 more places -- 8.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 194 BPM
BETRAYER · BAR 4
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

40 fills to learn, played 90 times: bars 1, 2, 9, 10, 13, 14 and 84 more.

LOOP · 194 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 194 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 194 BPM
BARS 13-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 194 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

36 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

259 bars across 33 sections: 132 keep time, 90 are fills, 3 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-33.

PART K
PART R
PART BW
18 groovesADCAAFBG+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Betrayer?

194 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 Betrayer hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

259 bars, about 5:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 116 exercises over 32 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Betrayer?

40 fills to learn, played 90 times: bars 1, 2, 9, 10, 13, 14 and 84 more.

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