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In The Trenches · Dying Fetus

EXERCISE 30 OF 74
Join Part A to Part P (bars 47-49)
125 / 169 BARS COVERED
0 / 74 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART P
CHORUS
PART J
PART A
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 17
LINK · 5
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play In The Trenches on drums

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.

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

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

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-3, kick and crashes through bars 4-6, toms through bars 7-8, snare through bars 9-22 and toms through bars 23-24, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    9
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-------x---x-------x-------x---|
In The Trenches -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-154 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Break 2 and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 47-68 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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