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Through Blood And Dirt And Bone · Trivium

EXERCISE 17 OF 83
Fill at bar 17 (a small one)
115 / 193 BARS COVERED
0 / 83 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART D
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Through Blood And Dirt And Bone on drums

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.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
63/100

ride through bars 2-30, snare through bars 31-57, ride through bars 58-64, snare through bars 65-105, ride through bars 106-112 and snare through bars 113-155, and 2 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 17 more places -- 31.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x---x---x---|
BD |x-x-x-x---x-|
Through Blood And Dirt And Bone -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- L, U -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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