← SONGS

Digging The Grave · Faith No More

EXERCISE 1 OF 20
Groove A -- Chorus
0 / 124 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 50 BARS LIT
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART E
OUTRO 2
4 groovesADCEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Digging The Grave on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-20, toms through bars 21-24, ride through bars 25-28, toms through bars 29-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-48, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Digging The Grave -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 15-25 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-68 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
START THE COURSE ↑

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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED