Troops Of Doom · Sepultura

130 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 5:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
5:40
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-40, 42-44 and 46-48, and 16 more places -- 29% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 95 BPM
TROOPS OF DOOM · BAR 38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 9, 10, 18, 53, 55, 57 and 11 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 13 sections: 94 keep time, 17 are fills, 2 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-37.

PART C
PART H
CHORUS
PART L
PART H
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
9 groovesIHCLA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Troops Of Doom?

95 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Troops Of Doom hard to play on drums?

63 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 5:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 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 Troops Of Doom?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 9, 10, 18, 53, 55, 57 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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