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Graveyard Disciples · Black Label Society

EXERCISE 28 OF 36
3-bar fill at bar 58
62 / 77 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Graveyard Disciples on drums

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.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
65/100

snare through bars 2-17, hi-hat through bars 18-24, snare through bars 25-37, hi-hat through bars 38-46, silence through bars 47-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-53, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- B -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-39 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 35-46 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part Q -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  7. Bars 49-70 -- 7 exercises, about 37 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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