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Graves Of The Fathers · Cryptopsy

EXERCISE 4 OF 110
Groove B -- Part B
18 / 188 BARS COVERED
0 / 110 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS 3, PART B
PART C
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 32
LAND · 32
RUN · 4
JOIN · 15
LINK · 7
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Graves Of The Fathers on drums

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.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
188
LENGTH
5:42
DIFFICULTY
79/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-10, snare through bars 11-12, hi-hat through bars 13-16, snare through bars 17-18 and hi-hat through bars 19-22, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    50
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x--x--------x-----------x--x--------|
Graves Of The Fathers -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 77 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 -- X -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through Part C -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part R -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Break and Part R -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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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