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Suffocating Sight · Trivium

EXERCISE 7 OF 62
Groove B -- Part B
89 / 191 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART I
PART J
PART N
PART S8
PART R
PART S
PART E
OUTRO
13 groovesS15JLSS8+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Suffocating Sight on drums

191 bars at 222 BPM -- fast, and 3:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
222 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
191
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
69/100

snare through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-14, toms through bars 15-17 and silence through bars 18-20, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-4, 7 and 9-12, and 6 more places -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---|
Suffocating Sight -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- A, J -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part S2 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 15-39 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part J -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part S8 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Suffocating Sight?

222 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Suffocating Sight hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

191 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 14 sittings, about 28 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 Suffocating Sight?

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 191 BARS ANALYSED