Tribal Convictions · Voivod

162 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 5:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
5:05
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 38-41, 46-49 and 63-66, and 1 more place -- 10.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 131 BPM
TRIBAL CONVICTIONS · BARS 38-39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 14, 21, 30, 36, 37, 39 and 44 more.

LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

162 bars across 17 sections: 91 keep time, 50 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-13.

CHORUS
PART J
PART J
PART O
PART V
PART AD
PART AG
10 groovesBJADAGO+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tribal Convictions?

131 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 Tribal Convictions hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 5:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 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 Tribal Convictions?

16 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 14, 21, 30, 36, 37, 39 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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