Extreme Unction (Accurate) · Necrophagist

244 bars at 207 BPM -- fast, and 4:33 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
207 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
244
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 50-52, 54-55 and 58-60, and 5 more places -- 8.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 207 BPM
EXTREME UNCTION (ACCURATE) · BARS 50-51
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 69 times: bars 1, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 63 more.

LOOP · 207 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 207 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 207 BPM
BARS 13-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 207 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

244 bars across 35 sections: 132 keep time, 69 are fills, 12 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 235-241.

PART O
PART AG
CHORUS
PART O
PART AG
CHORUS 5
17 groovesASAGOHAA+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Extreme Unction (Accurate)?

207 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Extreme Unction (Accurate) hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 98 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

244 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 24 sittings, about 27 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 Extreme Unction (Accurate)?

22 fills to learn, played 69 times: bars 1, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 63 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 244 BARS ANALYSED
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