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Chaos Reigns · Trivium

EXERCISE 8 OF 59
Groove B
48 / 167 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK, PART S3
BREAK
PART S3
PART F
PART F
OUTRO
BREAK 2
13 groovesS21ACFPK+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 1
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Chaos Reigns on drums

167 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 4:03 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-18, snare through bars 19-20 and hi-hat through bars 21-24, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31 and 53-59 -- 10.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Chaos Reigns -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- P, AC -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-114 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part S3 and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Bars 9-97 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 16-105 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Chaos Reigns?

210 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 Chaos Reigns hard to play on drums?

58 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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 Chaos Reigns?

9 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED