The Betrayer's Song · Allegro

116 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalHip Hop / Reggae90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9, 11 and 19, and 14 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 110 BPM
THE BETRAYER'S SONG · BARS 27-28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 6, 8, 12, 20, 36, 41 and 13 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 14 sections: 74 keep time, 19 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 64-74.

PART H
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART M
PART S
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEHMSB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Betrayer's Song?

110 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 The Betrayer's Song hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 Betrayer's Song?

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 6, 8, 12, 20, 36, 41 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
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