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Declaration · Trivium

EXERCISE 37 OF 88
Fill at bar 95 and 256 (a small one)
191 / 290 BARS COVERED
0 / 88 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART V, CHORUS 5
PART K
PART K
PART V
PART AA
CHORUS 3
PART K
CHORUS 5
OUTRO 2
12 groovesHKAAARV+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 9
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Declaration on drums

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.

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
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
290
LENGTH
10:57
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-10, silence through bars 11-13, kick and crashes through bars 14-15, hi-hat through bars 16-41 and toms through bars 42-43, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 68 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 -- H, K -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AR -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-16 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 26-76 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part V -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part V and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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