Funeral Thirst · The Black Dahlia Murder

129 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
97/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 29-31, and 3 more places -- 14.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
FUNERAL THIRST · BARS 13-14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 16, 20, 32, 36, 40, 44 and 15 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 15 sections: 90 keep time, 21 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 72-84.

PART B
PART C
PART B
PART C
PART G
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesJCGBM+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Funeral Thirst?

125 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 Thirst hard to play on drums?

97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 17 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 Funeral Thirst?

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 16, 20, 32, 36, 40, 44 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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