The Phalanx · Trivium

262 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 8:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
262
LENGTH
8:12
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-22, 24 and 28-30, and 5 more places -- 7.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 128 BPM
THE PHALANX · BAR 20
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

32 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 15 and 68 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 6-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

28 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

262 bars across 26 sections: 105 keep time, 74 are fills, 45 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 121-130.

PART H
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AF
PART BM
PART CP
22 groovesNCPBMAFZ+17Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Phalanx?

128 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 Phalanx hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

262 bars, about 8:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 107 exercises over 34 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Phalanx?

32 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 15 and 68 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 262 BARS ANALYSED
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