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The Betrayal · Fleshgod Apocalypse

EXERCISE 25 OF 76
Groove R -- Part R
264 / 344 BARS COVERED
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CHORUS
PART R
CHORUS 3
PART D
PART O
CHORUS 5
PART R
CHORUS 6
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAGDOAE+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Betrayal on drums

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.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
344
LENGTH
6:19
DIFFICULTY
80/100

ride through bars 1-23, hi-hat through bars 24-40, ride through bars 41-54, hi-hat through bars 55-64, ride through bars 65-74 and hi-hat through bars 75-77, and 22 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-41 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part O and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 63-71 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part R and the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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