Funeralopolis · Electric Wizard

217 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 10:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
217
LENGTH
10:20
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 109, 111 and 113-115, and 29 more places -- 31.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 84 BPM
FUNERALOPOLIS · BAR 118
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 32, 40, 48, 84, 88, 96 and 23 more.

LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 104 · LANDS ON BAR 105

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

217 bars across 7 sections: 174 keep time, 29 are fills, 3 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 121-167.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHDBNS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Funeralopolis?

84 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 Funeralopolis hard to play on drums?

63 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

217 bars, about 10:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Funeralopolis?

11 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 32, 40, 48, 84, 88, 96 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 217 BARS ANALYSED
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