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Tread The Floods · Trivium

EXERCISE 3 OF 45
Groove H -- Part H
48 / 155 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, OUTRO
PART A
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART J
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
BREAK
7 groovesFHJBA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tread The Floods on drums

155 bars at 202 BPM -- fast, and 3:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
202 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 1-15, kick and crashes through bars 16-17, hi-hat through bars 18-24, snare through bars 25-26, hi-hat through bars 27-33 and snare through bars 34-35, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 27-29, and 5 more places -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|
Tread The Floods -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 44, 62, 87, 95, 104, 106 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- B, F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 1-89 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 59-88 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part J -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part B -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Tread The Floods?

202 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 Tread The Floods hard to play on drums?

63 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Tread The Floods?

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 44, 62, 87, 95, 104, 106 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED