In The Trenches · Dying Fetus

169 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:45 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11-13 and 15, and 12 more places -- 19.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
IN THE TRENCHES · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 23, 24, 32 and 13 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

169 bars across 21 sections: 100 keep time, 19 are fills, 23 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 69-77.

CHORUS
PART J
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART W
PART P
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
15 groovesEPJADW+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In The Trenches?

180 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 In The Trenches hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 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 In The Trenches?

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 23, 24, 32 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED
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