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Gravedancer · Pig Destroyer

EXERCISE 28 OF 58
Fill at bar 21 (a small one)
61 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART M
PART C
PART F
PART M
PART F
PART M
CHORUS
PART AA
CHORUS 2
PART AH
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEMFAAC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gravedancer on drums

88 bars at 196 BPM -- fast, and 1:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
196 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
1:50
DIFFICULTY
64/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, toms through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-15, snare through bars 16-34, hi-hat through bars 35-48 and ride through bars 49-56, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 16, 18 and 20-22, and 4 more places -- 16.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    20               21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|x-x---x---x---x-|
Gravedancer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 8, 9, 12, 13, 15, 19 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- M -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 8-20 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and Part F -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 30-52 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part AA and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Gravedancer?

196 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Gravedancer hard to play on drums?

64 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 1:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 Gravedancer?

15 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 8, 9, 12, 13, 15, 19 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED