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Funeralopolis · Electric Wizard

EXERCISE 10 OF 42
Fill at bar 84, 96 and 100 (a small one)
162 / 217 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHDBNS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Funeralopolis on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
217
LENGTH
10:20
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-105, silence through bars 106-107, snare through bars 108-112, hi-hat through bars 113-120 and snare through bars 121-122, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    118
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x---x-------x---x-|
BD |x---x-------x---x-------|
Funeralopolis -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- H, B -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part S4 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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