Declaration · Trivium

290 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 10:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
290
LENGTH
10:57
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-25, 44-53 and 159-184, and 2 more places -- 22% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 106 BPM
DECLARATION · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 4, 8, 26, 27, 31, 35 and 34 more.

LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 106 BPM
BARS 26-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

290 bars across 19 sections: 167 keep time, 40 are fills, 61 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 159-184.

PART K
PART K
PART AA
CHORUS 3
PART K
OUTRO 2
12 groovesHKAAARV+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Declaration?

106 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 Declaration 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

290 bars, about 10:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Declaration?

19 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 4, 8, 26, 27, 31, 35 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 290 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Trivium drum parts

EVERY TRIVIUM CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →