The Betrayal · Fleshgod Apocalypse

344 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 6:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalElectronic150 BPM and up
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
344
LENGTH
6:19
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-10, 14-22 and 42-46, and 31 more places -- 37.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 210 BPM
THE BETRAYAL · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 90 times: bars 11, 12, 23, 24, 32, 40 and 84 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

344 bars across 18 sections: 225 keep time, 90 are fills, 4 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-10.

CHORUS
CHORUS 3
PART D
PART O
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAGDOAE+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Betrayal?

210 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 The Betrayal hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

344 bars, about 6:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 15 sittings, about 29 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 The Betrayal?

20 fills to learn, played 90 times: bars 11, 12, 23, 24, 32, 40 and 84 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 344 BARS ANALYSED
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