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Trigger · In Flames

EXERCISE 17 OF 66
Join Part D to Part I (bars 29-31)
139 / 180 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART I
PART D
PART I
CHORUS
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
10 groovesGDORF+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Trigger on drums

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.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-44, snare through bars 45-64, hi-hat through bars 65-80 and snare through bars 81-98, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Trigger -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- G, O -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 5-34 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part I and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 42-57 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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