Insurrection · Trivium

219 bars at 218 BPM -- fast, and 3:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
218 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
219
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-11, 13-18 and 64-69, and 2 more places -- 15.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 218 BPM
INSURRECTION · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 38, 39, 43, 46, 47, 96 and 15 more.

LOOP · 218 BPM
BARS 38-39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 218 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 218 BPM
BARS 46-47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 218 BPM
BAR 137 · LANDS ON BAR 138

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

219 bars across 15 sections: 149 keep time, 21 are fills, 28 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 63-77.

PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART B
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART W
PART AB
PART P
OUTRO
11 groovesIBABFP+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Insurrection?

218 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 Insurrection hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

219 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 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 Insurrection?

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 38, 39, 43, 46, 47, 96 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 219 BARS ANALYSED
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