IX/What The Dead Men Say · Trivium

167 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
91/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 6% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 67-68, 71 and 91-92, and 3 more places -- 6.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
IX/WHAT THE DEAD MEN SAY · BAR 67
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

37 fills to learn, played 72 times: bars 8, 10, 12, 16, 23, 24 and 66 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

33 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

167 bars across 20 sections: 62 keep time, 72 are fills, 13 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-22.

PART F
PART J
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART BQ
OUTRO 2
16 groovesAIJACSBQ+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is IX/What The Dead Men Say?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 IX/What The Dead Men Say hard to play on drums?

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 90 exercises over 29 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in IX/What The Dead Men Say?

37 fills to learn, played 72 times: bars 8, 10, 12, 16, 23, 24 and 66 more.

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