Electric Funeral · Black Sabbath

97 bars, 6:00, at 64 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
64 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
6:00
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 75-82 and 87-96 -- 19.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 64 BPM
ELECTRIC FUNERAL · BAR 75
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 14, 16, 24, 32, 35 and 9 more.

LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 12 sections: 66 keep time, 15 are fills, 2 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 88-96.

PART C
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART O
PART Z
PART AC
PART AG
OUTRO 2
9 groovesAAGOMAF+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Electric Funeral?

64 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 Electric Funeral hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 6:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Electric Funeral?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 14, 16, 24, 32, 35 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED
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