Boneyards · Parkway Drive

96 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 1:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
1:50
DIFFICULTY
89/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-25, 27-29 and 31-33, and 3 more places -- 19.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BONEYARDS · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 22, 34, 42 and 22 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 13 sections: 47 keep time, 28 are fills, 10 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

PART B
PART H
CHORUS
PART R
PART W
PART S8
PART AG
PART R
PART AC
OUTRO
11 groovesLRBHAG+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Boneyards?

210 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 Boneyards hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 1:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 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 Boneyards?

13 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 22, 34, 42 and 22 more.

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