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Throes of Perdition · Trivium

EXERCISE 9 OF 83
Fill at bar 23
71 / 173 BARS COVERED
0 / 83 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART D
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART T
PART S15
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
11 groovesHDVTS15+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 10
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Throes of Perdition on drums

173 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 5:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
5:32
DIFFICULTY
72/100

ride through bars 1-14, snare through bars 15-23, hi-hat through bars 24-38, snare through bars 39-47, hi-hat through bars 48-55 and snare through bars 56-62, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-26, 28-30 and 32-38, and 6 more places -- 23.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----x-----------------|
Throes of Perdition -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 27 and 33 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 1-102 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 7-16 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 9-40 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 24-52 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 52-71 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Throes of Perdition?

125 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 Throes of Perdition hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 5:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 18 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 Throes of Perdition?

20 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 27 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED