Like Light To The Flies · Trivium

267 bars at 212 BPM -- fast, and 5:02 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
212 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
267
LENGTH
5:02
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25, 27-32 and 51, and 41 more places -- 29.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 212 BPM
LIKE LIGHT TO THE FLIES · BAR 51
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 1, 2, 33, 34, 38, 41 and 37 more.

LOOP · 212 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 212 BPM
BARS 33-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 212 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 212 BPM
BARS 41-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

267 bars across 19 sections: 126 keep time, 43 are fills, 72 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-15.

PART C
PART G
PART K
CHORUS
PART C
PART G
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO 2
8 groovesQGCKAC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Like Light To The Flies?

212 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Like Light To The Flies hard to play on drums?

62 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

267 bars, about 5:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 14 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 Like Light To The Flies?

17 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 1, 2, 33, 34, 38, 41 and 37 more.

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