From the Black Coffin Lair · Sargeist

165 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 4:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-16, 18-24 and 26-32, and 4 more places -- 34.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 142 BPM
FROM THE BLACK COFFIN LAIR · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 17, 25, 33, 37, 41, 45 and 18 more.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

165 bars across 10 sections: 126 keep time, 24 are fills, 4 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-16.

CHORUS
PART F
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART J
CHORUS 3
7 groovesBJNFV+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is From the Black Coffin Lair?

142 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is From the Black Coffin Lair hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

165 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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 From the Black Coffin Lair?

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 17, 25, 33, 37, 41, 45 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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