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Traitors Never Play Hang-man · Bring Me The Horizon

EXERCISE 20 OF 58
Join Chorus 2 to Part I (bars 34-36)
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0 / 58 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART I
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART Q
PART S
PART V
PART Z
OUTRO 2
11 groovesFAQVS+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Traitors Never Play Hang-man on drums

124 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
56/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-42, hi-hat through bars 43-49, snare through bars 50-53, toms through bars 54-56 and snare through bars 57-61, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 15, and 8 more places -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Traitors Never Play Hang-man -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 10, 14, 18 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- F, B -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-39 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part I and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part Q -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Traitors Never Play Hang-man?

130 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 Traitors Never Play Hang-man hard to play on drums?

56 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Traitors Never Play Hang-man?

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 10, 14, 18 and 15 more.

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