Cemetery Gates · Pantera

200 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 6:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
200
LENGTH
6:42
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13-15 and 59-61, and 9 more places -- 20.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
CEMETERY GATES · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 12, 24, 40, 41, 49, 57 and 25 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 40-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

200 bars across 14 sections: 146 keep time, 31 are fills, 4 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 191-199.

CHORUS
PART E
PART Q
PART E
PART Q
CHORUS 3
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBEABQH+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cemetery Gates?

120 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 Cemetery Gates hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

200 bars, about 6:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 16 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 Cemetery Gates?

14 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 12, 24, 40, 41, 49, 57 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 200 BARS ANALYSED
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