Friends And Traitors · Raised Fist

193 bars at 260 BPM -- fast, and 2:58 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
260 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 76% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-47, 49-95 and 97-111, and 1 more place -- 76.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 260 BPM
FRIENDS AND TRAITORS · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

193 bars across 7 sections: 81 keep time, 78 are stops and 29 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 65-95.

PART A
PART F
PART C
PART F
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesS7FCGAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Friends And Traitors?

260 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 Friends And Traitors hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

193 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 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.

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