Cremated · Mortician

69 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 1:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
1:35
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 21-23, and 1 more place -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 175 BPM
CREMATED · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 7, 16, 24, 32, 36, 40 and 4 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

69 bars across 8 sections: 45 keep time, 10 are fills, 3 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-62.

PART A
PART D
PART S3
PART I
CHORUS
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesLIDAH+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cremated?

175 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 Cremated hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 1:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 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 Cremated?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 7, 16, 24, 32, 36, 40 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED
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