Tragedy · Counterparts

182 bars at 204 BPM -- fast, and 3:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
204 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-38, 40-41 and 44-46, and 6 more places -- 12.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 204 BPM
TRAGEDY · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 25, 29, 42, 50, 96, 97 and 3 more.

LOOP · 204 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 204 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 204 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 204 BPM
BARS 96-98 · LANDS ON BAR 99 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

182 bars across 12 sections: 111 keep time, 9 are fills, 41 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-24.

PART B
CHORUS
PART S5
PART N
PART U
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesDNS5AAB+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tragedy?

204 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 Tragedy hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

182 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Tragedy?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 25, 29, 42, 50, 96, 97 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 182 BARS ANALYSED
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