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Like Light To The Flies · Trivium

EXERCISE 26 OF 72
Join Part G to Chorus (bars 59-61)
180 / 267 BARS COVERED
0 / 72 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, CHORUS
PART C
PART G
PART K
PART G
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 9
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Like Light To The Flies on drums

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.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
212 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
267
LENGTH
5:02
DIFFICULTY
62/100

snare through bars 1-18, hi-hat through bars 19-34, ride through bars 35-50, snare through bars 51-98, hi-hat through bars 99-114 and ride through bars 115-130, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    51
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---x-x---|
Like Light To The Flies -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- G, C -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part K -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 57-161 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 79-163 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 267 BARS ANALYSED