Gravesinger by Shadow Of Intent · Shadow Of Intent

186 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-32, 36 and 40, and 6 more places -- 16.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
GRAVESINGER BY SHADOW OF INTENT · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 8, 22, 26, 33, 34, 38 and 21 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 33-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

186 bars across 18 sections: 118 keep time, 27 are fills, 17 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 139-148.

PART D
PART N
PART K
CHORUS
PART X
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART AO
15 groovesTKAONX+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gravesinger by Shadow Of Intent?

200 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 Gravesinger by Shadow Of Intent hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

186 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 17 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 Gravesinger by Shadow Of Intent?

18 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 8, 22, 26, 33, 34, 38 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 186 BARS ANALYSED
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