Death Knell · Ghost

143 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-32, 57-68 and 112-119 -- 19.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
DEATH KNELL · BARS 25-26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 34, 36, 38, 69, 70, 71 and 9 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 75 · LANDS ON BAR 76 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 89 · LANDS ON BAR 90 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 10 sections: 109 keep time, 15 are fills, 5 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-23.

PART A
CHORUS
PART E
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART O
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCEAIT+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Death Knell?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Death Knell hard to play on drums?

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in 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?

143 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Death Knell?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 34, 36, 38, 69, 70, 71 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED
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