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From the Black Coffin Lair · Sargeist

EXERCISE 5 OF 53
Fill at bar 33
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0 / 53 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play From the Black Coffin Lair on drums

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.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
69/100

hi-hat through bars 2-33, ride through bars 34-65, hi-hat through bars 66-81, ride through bars 82-97, snare through bars 98-113 and ride through bars 114-129, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|
From the Black Coffin Lair -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, F -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 30-50 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 46-66 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 62-82 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part N -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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