Pull Harder On The Strings Of Your Martyr · Trivium

168 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-31, 33-35 and 37-39, and 18 more places -- 25.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 145 BPM
PULL HARDER ON THE STRINGS OF YOUR MARTYR · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 20, 32, 36 and 24 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

168 bars across 15 sections: 106 keep time, 30 are fills, 16 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 77-92.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART Y
OUTRO
9 groovesHCFUY+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pull Harder On The Strings Of Your Martyr?

145 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Pull Harder On The Strings Of Your Martyr hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Pull Harder On The Strings Of Your Martyr?

18 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 20, 32, 36 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED
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