Graves Of The Fathers · Cryptopsy

188 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 5:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
188
LENGTH
5:42
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-51, 53-55 and 77-79, and 3 more places -- 9.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 132 BPM
GRAVES OF THE FATHERS · BAR 50
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

32 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 14, 17, 18 and 54 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 10-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 28-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

28 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

188 bars across 19 sections: 95 keep time, 63 are fills, 7 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-6.

PART C
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART X
CHORUS 3
PART B
PART BE
OUTRO 2
11 groovesEBCXBE+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Graves Of The Fathers?

132 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 Graves Of The Fathers hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

188 bars, about 5:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 77 exercises over 22 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 Graves Of The Fathers?

32 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 14, 17, 18 and 54 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 188 BARS ANALYSED
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