Boneyard · Impetigo

102 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 2:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
2:20
DIFFICULTY
92/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 62% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-23, 25-32 and 37-39, and 9 more places -- 61.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BONEYARD · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 36, 64, 92, 100 and 101.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 100-101 · LANDS ON BAR 102 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 8 sections: 88 keep time, 6 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-32.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDAFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Boneyard?

175 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Boneyard hard to play on drums?

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 2:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 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 Boneyard?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 36, 64, 92, 100 and 101.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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