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Funeral Fog · Mayhem

EXERCISE 7 OF 69
Join Part A to Chorus (bars 15-17)
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PART A
CHORUS
PART A
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART A
PART AH
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBANAHQ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 9
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Funeral Fog on drums

218 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 5:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
218
LENGTH
5:59
DIFFICULTY
99/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40, ride through bars 41-48, hi-hat through bars 49-58 and toms through bars 59-60, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-16, 49-56 and 65, and 24 more places -- 30.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through the Break and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through Part N -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Funeral Fog?

146 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 Fog hard to play on drums?

99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

218 bars, about 5:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 18 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 Funeral Fog?

15 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 218 BARS ANALYSED