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Funeral Sound · Vein

EXERCISE 17 OF 62
Run C1 · Chorus (bars 7-31)
36 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 25 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
PART P
PART W
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesCALYS12P+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Funeral Sound on drums

110 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-22, hi-hat through bars 23-24, toms through bars 25-26, hi-hat through bars 27-40 and snare through bars 41-44, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-16, 19 and 31-33, and 1 more place -- 8.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Funeral Sound -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 14, 18, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 36 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- E, W -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-41 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 32-47 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Bars 45-54 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 53-67 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 59-76 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Funeral Sound?

130 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 Sound hard to play on drums?

48 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Sound?

15 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 14, 18, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED