Shattering The Skies Above · Trivium

126 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 4:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
94/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-26, 29-30 and 49-50, and 3 more places -- 9.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 102 BPM
SHATTERING THE SKIES ABOVE · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 12 and 64 more.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BARS 1-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BARS 12-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 13 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 11 sections: 46 keep time and 70 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 61-65.

PART F
PART G
PART Y
CHORUS
PART AE
PART AH
PART AU
PART BB
OUTRO
9 groovesUGBBYF+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shattering The Skies Above?

102 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Shattering The Skies Above hard to play on drums?

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 4:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 20 sittings, about 27 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 Shattering The Skies Above?

17 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 12 and 64 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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