Master Of Puppets · Trivium

422 bars at 230 BPM -- fast, and 6:52 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
230 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
422
LENGTH
6:52
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-50, 56 and 58, and 28 more places -- 12.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 230 BPM
MASTER OF PUPPETS · BAR 49
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 19, 20, 42, 53, 64, 65 and 46 more.

LOOP · 230 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 230 BPM
BARS 92-96 · LANDS ON BAR 97 · PLAYED 15 TIMES
LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 106 · LANDS ON BAR 107 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

422 bars across 40 sections: 211 keep time, 55 are fills, 96 are stops and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 332-354.

CHORUS
PART I
PART N
CHORUS 4
26 groovesOIWNAQ+21Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Master Of Puppets?

230 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 Master Of Puppets hard to play on drums?

50 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

422 bars, about 6:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 97 exercises over 29 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Master Of Puppets?

15 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 19, 20, 42, 53, 64, 65 and 46 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 422 BARS ANALYSED
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