Chapel Of Ghouls · Morbid Angel

230 bars at 191 BPM -- fast, and 4:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
191 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
230
LENGTH
4:25
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 81-83, 85-86 and 89-91, and 13 more places -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 191 BPM
CHAPEL OF GHOULS · BAR 81
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 16, 17, 21, 23, 24, 25 and 52 more.

LOOP · 191 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 191 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 191 BPM
BARS 23-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 191 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

230 bars across 16 sections: 110 keep time, 58 are fills, 44 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 185-201.

PART C
PART H
PART H
PART S
CHORUS
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART AG
OUTRO 2
10 groovesXHAGSC+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Chapel Of Ghouls?

191 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 Chapel Of Ghouls hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

230 bars, about 4:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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 Chapel Of Ghouls?

17 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 16, 17, 21, 23, 24, 25 and 52 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 230 BARS ANALYSED
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