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Desolate Funeral Chant · Inquisition

EXERCISE 20 OF 62
Groove G -- Part G
68 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Desolate Funeral Chant on drums

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.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
62 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
6:54
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-9, silence through bars 10-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, ride through bars 21-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-36, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    29
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---------------|
Desolate Funeral Chant -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-17 -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 12-32 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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