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Catacombs · After The Burial

EXERCISE 37 OF 67
Run G2 · Part G (bars 73-87)
114 / 161 BARS COVERED
0 / 67 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART G
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART AE
PART B
OUTRO
9 groovesLGBAEAN+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Catacombs on drums

161 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
61/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-24, snare through bars 25-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-33, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 29 and 31, and 16 more places -- 24.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 3, 4, 7, 8, 12, 16 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- L, AE -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 30-56 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 51-67 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 58-85 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Catacombs?

150 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 Catacombs hard to play on drums?

61 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 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 Catacombs?

16 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 3, 4, 7, 8, 12, 16 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED