Through Blood And Dirt And Bone · Trivium

193 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 4:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-28, 30-32 and 34-36, and 17 more places -- 31.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 158 BPM
THROUGH BLOOD AND DIRT AND BONE · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 21 and 38 more.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

193 bars across 18 sections: 118 keep time, 44 are fills, 10 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 167-180.

PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART U
CHORUS 3
PART V
9 groovesLUVQD+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Through Blood And Dirt And Bone?

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

Is Through Blood And Dirt And Bone hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

193 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 16 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Through Blood And Dirt And Bone?

22 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 21 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 193 BARS ANALYSED
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