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Down From The Sky · Trivium

EXERCISE 2 OF 52
Groove U -- Part U
36 / 226 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE PART U
PART A
PART C
PART H
CHORUS
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART U
PART U
PART Y
PART Q
11 groovesIQUYA+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 7
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Down From The Sky on drums

226 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:19 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
226
LENGTH
5:19
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 1-30, toms through bars 31-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48, snare through bars 49-64, toms through bars 65-68 and snare through bars 69-84, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 69-74, 77-82 and 121-126, and 3 more places -- 16.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    69
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-----------x-----x-----x-----------x-----|
Down From The Sky -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 32, 65, 66, 67, 68, 117 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- Q -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Bars 44-163 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Bars 42-69 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Down From The Sky?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Down From The Sky hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

226 bars, about 5:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 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 Down From The Sky?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 32, 65, 66, 67, 68, 117 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 226 BARS ANALYSED