Trial Of Traitors · Crypta

177 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 5:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
5:32
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-16, 21-23 and 32, and 6 more places -- 13.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 128 BPM
TRIAL OF TRAITORS · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 18, 26, 28 and 36 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

177 bars across 25 sections: 85 keep time, 42 are fills, 14 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-37.

PART A
PART I
PART N
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S23
OUTRO
11 groovesZNAIU+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Trial Of Traitors?

128 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Trial Of Traitors hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 5:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 23 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 Trial Of Traitors?

19 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 18, 26, 28 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED
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