Faceless Departure · Burial Etiquette

96 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:01 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
2:01
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 22, and 5 more places -- 16.9% 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
FACELESS DEPARTURE · BAR 50
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 80.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 10 sections: 74 keep time, 1 is a fill, 4 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-29.

PART A
CHORUS
PART K
PART M
PART G
PART Q
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesCWGKA+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Faceless Departure?

180 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 Faceless Departure hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 2:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Faceless Departure?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 80.

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