Catastrophist · Trivium

245 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 6:12 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreProgressive150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
245
LENGTH
6:12
DIFFICULTY
90/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43, 45 and 47, and 19 more places -- 9.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 158 BPM
CATASTROPHIST · BAR 43
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

28 fills to learn, played 73 times: bars 2, 8, 9, 10, 17, 18 and 67 more.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 8-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 27-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 8 TIMES

24 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

245 bars across 27 sections: 128 keep time, 73 are fills, 7 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 110-119.

CHORUS
PART AT
PART BR
PART CB
CHORUS 3
21 groovesXYCBATC+16Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Catastrophist?

158 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Catastrophist hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

245 bars, about 6:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 101 exercises over 35 sittings, about 26 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 Catastrophist?

28 fills to learn, played 73 times: bars 2, 8, 9, 10, 17, 18 and 67 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 245 BARS ANALYSED
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