What The Dead Men Say · Trivium

126 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 4:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreProgressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-29, 32 and 52-53, and 3 more places -- 8.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 105 BPM
WHAT THE DEAD MEN SAY · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

31 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 6, 10, 14, 16, 18, 20 and 56 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17

27 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 15 sections: 42 keep time, 62 are fills, 6 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 86-91.

PART D
PART N
CHORUS
PART D
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART AT
PART AY
PART BB
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesTDBBNBN+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is What The Dead Men Say?

105 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 What The Dead Men Say hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 23 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 What The Dead Men Say?

31 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 6, 10, 14, 16, 18, 20 and 56 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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