Traps · Bloc Party

112 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 2:53 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-12, 49-54 and 97-98, and 1 more place -- 12.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 155 BPM
TRAPS · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 47 and 8 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 6-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 47-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 10 sections: 85 keep time, 14 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-36.

PART A
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART K
PART A
OUTRO
6 groovesGJAKY+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Traps?

155 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 Traps hard to play on drums?

58 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Traps?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 47 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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