Built To Fall · Trivium

111 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 3:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-9, 18-24 and 42-48 -- 15.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BUILT TO FALL · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 10, 17, 25, 29, 38, 41 and 6 more.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 14 sections: 74 keep time, 12 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 79-90.

PART B
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART J
PART J
PART P
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEJMSW+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Built To Fall?

142 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Built To Fall hard to play on drums?

59 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 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 Built To Fall?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 10, 17, 25, 29, 38, 41 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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