Traces · Vildhjarta

212 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 6:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
212
LENGTH
6:01
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 157, 160 and 162, and 7 more places -- 7.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
TRACES · BAR 157
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 36 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 38-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

212 bars across 14 sections: 97 keep time, 42 are fills, 18 are stops and 42 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 68-83.

PART A
PART Z
CHORUS
PART BK
PART BM
PART S11
PART CA
OUTRO
12 groovesS4ZACGS11+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Traces?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Traces hard to play on drums?

45 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

212 bars, about 6:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 Traces?

12 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 212 BARS ANALYSED
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