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Funeral Bell · Black Label Society

EXERCISE 7 OF 24
Groove D
99 / 124 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, OUTRO, OUTRO 2
PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Funeral Bell on drums

124 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 4:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
51/100

hi-hat through bars 1-42, snare through bars 43-49, hi-hat through bars 50-78, snare through bars 79-86, hi-hat through bars 87-88 and snare through bars 89-90, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-11 and 13-20, and 13 more places -- 50.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 38, 42, 50, 76, 78, 90 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- A, C -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-64 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 32-70 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 12 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Funeral Bell?

115 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 Funeral Bell hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in 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?

124 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Funeral Bell?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 38, 42, 50, 76, 78, 90 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED