Desolate Funeral Chant · Inquisition

108 bars, 6:54, at 62 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
62 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
6:54
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-31, 33 and 35, and 13 more places -- 29.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 62 BPM
DESOLATE FUNERAL CHANT · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 6, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20 and 16 more.

LOOP · 62 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 62 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 62 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 62 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 15 sections: 60 keep time, 22 are fills, 7 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 86-92.

PART S5
PART G
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART V
CHORUS 3
PART V
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
9 groovesJVS5GN+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Desolate Funeral Chant?

62 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Desolate Funeral Chant hard to play on drums?

61 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 6:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 13 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 Desolate Funeral Chant?

16 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 6, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
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