Digging The Grave · Faith No More

124 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 3:01 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-14, 33-46 and 68, and 6 more places -- 40.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 164 BPM
DIGGING THE GRAVE · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 16 sections: 105 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-86.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO 2
4 groovesADCEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Digging The Grave?

164 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 Digging The Grave hard to play on drums?

57 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 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.

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