Cursing Akhenaten · After The Burial

79 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreProgressiveUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 14-21 and 30-37 -- 22.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 80 BPM
CURSING AKHENATEN · BARS 14-15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 41, 49, 53, 57, 62, 63 and 7 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 12 sections: 45 keep time, 13 are fills, 1 is a stop and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-12.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART G
PART H
PART L
PART S10
OUTRO
9 groovesEGS10CH+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cursing Akhenaten?

80 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 Cursing Akhenaten hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Cursing Akhenaten?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 41, 49, 53, 57, 62, 63 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED
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