Trigger · In Flames

180 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:54 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 22, and 30 more places -- 29.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 185 BPM
TRIGGER · BAR 49
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 32, 48, 56, 88, 97 and 9 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

180 bars across 19 sections: 82 keep time, 15 are fills, 55 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-29.

PART D
CHORUS
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
10 groovesGDORF+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Trigger?

185 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Trigger hard to play on drums?

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

180 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Trigger?

11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 32, 48, 56, 88, 97 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 180 BARS ANALYSED
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