Into The Grave · Grave

184 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-49, 51-57 and 59-65, and 3 more places -- 23.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
INTO THE GRAVE · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 12, 14, 16, 22, 34, 40 and 30 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

184 bars across 15 sections: 122 keep time, 36 are fills, 7 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-33.

PART G
PART K
CHORUS
PART K
PART AE
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesOKGAEAH+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Into The Grave?

140 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 Into The Grave hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 18 sittings, about 28 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 Into The Grave?

21 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 12, 14, 16, 22, 34, 40 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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