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Trial Of Traitors · Crypta

EXERCISE 19 OF 89
Groove M
71 / 177 BARS COVERED
0 / 89 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, PART N, PART J
PART A
PART I
PART N
CHORUS
PART J
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART S23
OUTRO
11 groovesZNAIU+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 3
JOIN · 17
LINK · 3
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Trial Of Traitors on drums

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.

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
5:32
DIFFICULTY
81/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-24, ride through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-36 and ride through bars 37-40, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    14
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Trial Of Traitors -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 69 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 -- I -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part I -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part N -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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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