Extreme Unction · Necrophagist

235 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:55 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
235
LENGTH
4:55
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20, 22 and 24-26, and 7 more places -- 9.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
EXTREME UNCTION · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 67 times: bars 1, 9, 10, 11, 23, 27 and 61 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

235 bars across 29 sections: 131 keep time, 68 are fills, 12 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 226-235.

PART O
PART O
PART AE
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART O
CHORUS 3
17 groovesAOOAEYAJ+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Extreme Unction?

180 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 hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

235 bars, about 4:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 24 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 Extreme Unction?

18 fills to learn, played 67 times: bars 1, 9, 10, 11, 23, 27 and 61 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 235 BARS ANALYSED
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