Inception Of The End · Trivium

142 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 152 BPM, 5:36 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
5:36
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-16, 34-37 and 40 -- 12.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 152 BPM
INCEPTION OF THE END · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 3, 9, 17, 25, 34, 35 and 13 more.

LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 14 sections: 60 keep time, 19 are fills, 1 is a stop and 48 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-16.

PART H
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART W
BREAK
12 groovesS14LHWF+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Inception Of The End?

152 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Inception Of The End hard to play on drums?

48 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 5:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 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 Inception Of The End?

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 3, 9, 17, 25, 34, 35 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED
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