Buried By Time And Dust · Mayhem

179 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:35 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 81% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-24, 33-48 and 59-138, and 4 more places -- 80.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BURIED BY TIME AND DUST · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 141, 142, 154 and 170.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 141-142 · LANDS ON BAR 143 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 154 · LANDS ON BAR 155 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

179 bars across 5 sections: 161 keep time, 4 are fills, 9 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 60-140.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Buried By Time And Dust?

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

Is Buried By Time And Dust hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

179 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Buried By Time And Dust?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 141, 142, 154 and 170.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 179 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Mayhem drum parts

EVERY MAYHEM CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →