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.

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

TEMPO

230 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

422

LENGTH

6:52

DIFFICULTY

50/100

hi-hat through bars 1-5, silence through bars 6-7, kick and crashes through bars 8-17, snare through bars 18-21, silence through bars 22-23 and kick and crashes through bars 24-25, and 50 more changes after that.

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.

    49
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|

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

It cuts the song into 97 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 -- N, I -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
3. Bars 1-21 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
4. Bars 16-30 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
5. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
6. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
7. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
8. Through Part W -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
9. and 21 more sittings after that.