Departure · Trivium

244 bars at 184 BPM -- fast, and 5:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
244
LENGTH
5:32
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 130-137, 146-152 and 162-168 -- 9.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 184 BPM
DEPARTURE · BAR 131
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 6, 12, 24, 25, 33, 42 and 40 more.

LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 184 BPM
BARS 42-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 8 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

244 bars across 23 sections: 139 keep time, 46 are fills, 20 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 115-128.

PART A
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART AF
PART AM
OUTRO
14 groovesFXAILK+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Departure?

184 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 Departure hard to play on drums?

61 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 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

244 bars, about 5:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 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 Departure?

14 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 6, 12, 24, 25, 33, 42 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 244 BARS ANALYSED
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