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

EXERCISE 25 OF 66
Join Part N to Break (bars 52-54)
68 / 143 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, BREAK
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART N
BREAK
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 6
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

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

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.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
76/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-13, snare through bars 14-21, kick and crashes through bars 22-36, toms through bars 37-39 and snare through bars 40-42, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    26
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---------------x---------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
The Grief Trilogy, Stage. 2 (Bullet To Your Temple) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- H, Y -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 25-46 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part N -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 52-62 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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