Graveyard Disciples · Black Label Society

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 6 more places -- 37.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 92 BPM
GRAVEYARD DISCIPLES · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 17, 20, 21, 24, 25, 38 and 20 more.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 92 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 9 sections: 41 keep time, 26 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-16.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBEQS6S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Graveyard Disciples?

92 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Graveyard Disciples hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Graveyard Disciples?

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 17, 20, 21, 24, 25, 38 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED
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