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Cemetery Sun · Greyhaven

EXERCISE 1 OF 48
Groove L -- Part L
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PART S2
PART L
CHORUS
PART AF
PART S6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesS4AOLS2AF+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cemetery Sun on drums

104 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-26, toms through bars 27-29, kick and crashes through bars 30-33 and ride through bars 34-39, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 16 and 30, and 12 more places -- 26% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    32
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
RD |--------g---------------g-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-------------------------------|
Cemetery Sun -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11 and 35 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AO -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 3-44 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 30-73 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part S6 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part S6 and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Cemetery Sun?

115 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 Sun hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 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 Cemetery Sun?

14 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED