Trophies of the Tyrant · Kerry King

115 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

130 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

115

LENGTH

3:35

DIFFICULTY

80/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-36, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-51, 53-55 and 60-64, and 5 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    49
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
RD |------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|

14 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28 and 28 more.

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- S -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
4. Through Part B and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
5. Through Part G -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
6. Bars 21-49 -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
7. Bars 20-25 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
8. Bars 21-41 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
9. and 6 more sittings after that.