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Cemetery Gates · Pantera

EXERCISE 24 OF 66
Groove T (a two-bar phrase)
127 / 200 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q
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
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cemetery Gates on drums

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.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
200
LENGTH
6:42
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-39, toms through bars 40-41, hi-hat through bars 42-89, toms through bars 90-91 and hi-hat through bars 92-125, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------X-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------x-----------------------x-----|
Cemetery Gates -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q, E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 26-42 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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