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Detonation · Trivium

EXERCISE 1 OF 73
Groove AE -- Chorus
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PART N
PART N
PART T
PART X
CHORUS
PART AI
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK 3
13 groovesAETS18NX+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 4
JOIN · 15
LINK · 7
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Detonation on drums

187 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 4:00 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

56 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
187
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
56/100

toms through bars 1-9, silence through bars 10-13, hi-hat through bars 14-54, snare through bars 55-58, ride through bars 59-64 and toms through bars 65-66, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 107-112, 115-120 and 139-145, and 2 more places -- 17.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    108
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|
Detonation -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 18, 28, 32, 36, 44, 46 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- AE -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-15 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Break 2 and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Detonation?

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 Detonation hard to play on drums?

56 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

187 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 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 Detonation?

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 18, 28, 32, 36, 44, 46 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 187 BARS ANALYSED