Threefold Death · Eluveitie

99 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 14 and 16, and 7 more places -- 16.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
THREEFOLD DEATH · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 28 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 17-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 29-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 13 sections: 42 keep time, 34 are fills, 2 are stops and 13 are silent.

PART D
CHORUS
PART S7
CHORUS 2
PART W
PART Y
PART AC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesFWDACS12+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Threefold Death?

120 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 Threefold Death 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 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 15 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 Threefold Death?

13 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED
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