Triad · Tool

114 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 108 BPM, 6:18 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
6:18
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 68% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-52 -- 68.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 108 BPM
TRIAD · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 54, 56, 59, 60, 61, 62 and 9 more.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 108 BPM
BARS 59-62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BARS 65-73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 4 sections: 59 keep time, 15 are fills and 38 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-52.

CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesAS4EBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Triad?

108 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Triad hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 6:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 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 Triad?

4 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 54, 56, 59, 60, 61, 62 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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