To Defy The Laws Of Tradition · Primus

197 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 7:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
197
LENGTH
7:20
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-35, 38-39 and 46-47, and 5 more places -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 107 BPM
TO DEFY THE LAWS OF TRADITION · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 30, 31, 32, 36, 48, 62 and 30 more.

LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

197 bars across 18 sections: 81 keep time, 36 are fills, 1 is a stop and 67 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-82.

PART S2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART S8
PART AP
PART AK
PART BE
OUTRO 2
16 groovesGS2S18AKS8+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is To Defy The Laws Of Tradition?

107 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 To Defy The Laws Of Tradition hard to play on drums?

80 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?

197 bars, about 7:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 21 sittings, about 27 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 To Defy The Laws Of Tradition?

17 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 30, 31, 32, 36, 48, 62 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 197 BARS ANALYSED
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