The Grief Trilogy, Stage. 2 (Bullet To Your Temple) · Change The Frequency

143 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-28, 30-32 and 34-36, and 2 more places -- 9.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
THE GRIEF TRILOGY, STAGE. 2 (BULLET TO YOUR TEMPLE) · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 9, 13, 38, 61, 69, 77 and 9 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 16 sections: 90 keep time, 15 are fills, 16 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-36.

PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART N
PART P
PART T
PART V
PART Y
PART AD
PART AJ
15 groovesHYBPAJ+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Grief Trilogy, Stage. 2 (Bullet To Your Temple)?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Grief Trilogy, Stage. 2 (Bullet To Your Temple) hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 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 Grief Trilogy, Stage. 2 (Bullet To Your Temple)?

11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 9, 13, 38, 61, 69, 77 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED
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