Shogun · Trivium

390 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 12:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
390
LENGTH
12:36
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 58-65, 100-102 and 104-110, and 4 more places -- 10.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
SHOGUN · BAR 58
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 21, 25, 29, 33, 41, 43 and 39 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

390 bars across 26 sections: 213 keep time, 45 are fills, 23 are stops and 84 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 294-316.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK 4
PART BE
BREAK 5
19 groovesGS26RAWBE+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shogun?

140 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 Shogun hard to play on drums?

53 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

390 bars, about 12:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 90 exercises over 25 sittings, about 26 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 Shogun?

20 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 21, 25, 29, 33, 41, 43 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 390 BARS ANALYSED
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