Trespasses · Converge

120 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 3:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 22-24 and 26-28, and 12 more places -- 30.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 152 BPM
TRESPASSES · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 8, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25 and 28 more.

LOOP · 152 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 12 sections: 73 keep time, 34 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGBEZFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Trespasses?

152 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 Trespasses hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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 Trespasses?

13 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 8, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25 and 28 more.

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