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Trust · Megadeth

EXERCISE 15 OF 38
Fill at bar 82 (a small one)
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0 / 38 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGBQWS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Trust on drums

169 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 5:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
5:06
DIFFICULTY
57/100

toms through bars 1-34, hi-hat through bars 35-98, ride through bars 99-112, silence through bars 113-114, hi-hat through bars 115-116 and toms through bars 117-120, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-41, 43-49 and 52-55, and 23 more places -- 47.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    37
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Trust -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 33, 34, 42, 58, 82, 90 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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, B -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 106-121 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Trust?

132 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 Trust hard to play on drums?

57 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 5:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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 Trust?

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 33, 34, 42, 58, 82, 90 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED