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Built To Fall · Trivium

EXERCISE 1 OF 52
Groove E -- Chorus 2
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PART B
CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Built To Fall on drums

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.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 1-10, snare through bars 11-17, hi-hat through bars 18-29, snare through bars 30-41, hi-hat through bars 42-53 and snare through bars 54-62, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Built To Fall -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- E, G -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-18 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-30 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-33 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 29-49 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 57-71 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 66-78 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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