ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Funeral Hymn on drums

215 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 8:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO: 98 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 215
LENGTH: 8:40
DIFFICULTY: 73/100

toms through bars 2-17, hi-hat through bars 18-38, toms through bars 39-49, snare through bars 50-91, toms through bars 92-140 and snare through bars 141-195, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 100-131 -- 15% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    100                                                              101
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |--------------------------------------------------------x-------|x-----------------------x-------x-------------------------------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|----------------x-------------------------------x-------x---x---|
FT |----------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------x-------------------|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x---x---x---x---x---x---|
HF |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x---------------|--------x-------x-----------------------x-----------------------|

Funeral Hymn -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 136, 137, 138 and 167.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through Part D and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
Through Part G and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
Through Part H and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
and 19 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Funeral Hymn?

98 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Hymn hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

215 bars, about 8:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 27 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Funeral Hymn?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 136, 137, 138 and 167.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 215 BARS ANALYSED