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Struck Dead · Trivium

EXERCISE 1 OF 132
Groove P -- Part P
0 / 224 BARS COVERED
0 / 132 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
PART D
PART P
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART AP
PART BC
PART BK
PART BK
PART P
OUTRO 2
13 groovesSBKDPC+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 34
LAND · 34
RUN · 2
JOIN · 17
LINK · 13
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Struck Dead on drums

224 bars of 4/4 at 153 BPM, about 5:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
224
LENGTH
5:51
DIFFICULTY
75/100

toms through bars 1-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28, snare through bars 29-36, toms through bars 37-56, hi-hat through bars 57-64 and snare through bars 65-73, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 57-59, and 3 more places -- 8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    21
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------x--------x--------------x-----------|
BD |x--------x--------x-----------x-----------x-----|
Struck Dead -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

34 fills to learn, played 73 times: bars 1, 2, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 67 more.

What the course does

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 -- P -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- BK -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part D and Part C -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 21 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Struck Dead?

153 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 Struck Dead hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

224 bars, about 5:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 97 exercises over 29 sittings, about 27 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 Struck Dead?

34 fills to learn, played 73 times: bars 1, 2, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 67 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 224 BARS ANALYSED