TRIVIUM · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in The Deceived

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 141-147, 149-151 and 153-155, and 7 more places -- 15.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

TEMPO
212 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
80/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 212 BPM
THE DECEIVED · BAR 141

It is played on crash, snare and kick, counted in thirty-second notes. On its own it scores 48 out of 100 -- a step up -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 80 out of 100, so the beat is not the hard part: what costs you is everything around it, the joins and the fills.

How to get it under your hands

A part this hard is not learned by playing it slowly and hoping. The room opens it on its simplest reduction -- the timekeeper alone, at 159 BPM -- and adds the notes back over 3 rungs, each with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. Kick and snare, whole. The feet and the snare exactly as written, and nothing else. This is the part to know by heart.
  2. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 159, 186 and 212 BPM, and the gate at each one is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.

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Questions

What drum beat does The Deceived use?

A one-bar groove on crash, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 212 BPM, counted in thirty-second notes. It is written out above, and it covers 15.9% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 141-147, 149-151, 153-155 and 157-159, and 6 more places. The time is kept on the hi-hat to start with, and it changes 11 times over the song.

Is the beat in The Deceived hard?

48 out of 100 on its own -- a step up. The song as a whole is 80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 189 BARS ANALYSED