The Crusade · Trivium

284 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 8:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
284
LENGTH
8:24
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 151-166, 241-248 and 257-280 -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 137 BPM
THE CRUSADE · BARS 151-152
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 6, 7, 48, 66, 67, 68 and 24 more.

LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 97 · LANDS ON BAR 98

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

284 bars across 25 sections: 211 keep time, 30 are fills, 6 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 258-280.

PART M
CHORUS
PART AW
PART BG
PART BK
OUTRO
16 groovesANMAGR+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Crusade?

137 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 Crusade hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

284 bars, about 8:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 87 exercises over 31 sittings, about 25 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 Crusade?

15 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 6, 7, 48, 66, 67, 68 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 284 BARS ANALYSED
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