Trapped In A Corner · Death

141 bars at 167 BPM -- fast, and 4:06 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
167 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 68-74 and 76-82 -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 167 BPM
TRAPPED IN A CORNER · BARS 68-69
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 21, 22, 26, 28, 30, 32 and 11 more.

LOOP · 167 BPM
BARS 21-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 167 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 167 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 167 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 15 sections: 75 keep time, 17 are fills, 11 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-66.

PART P
PART AD
CHORUS
PART AM
PART AO
PART AR
BREAK
14 groovesS15AJARADP+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Trapped In A Corner?

167 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Trapped In A Corner 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 23 sittings, about 24 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 Trapped In A Corner?

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 21, 22, 26, 28, 30, 32 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED
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