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Lord of Agony · Funeraria

Lord of Agony · Funeraria
EXERCISE 18 OF 36
Join Part F to Part H (bars 40-42)
104 / 130 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, PART H
PART B
CHORUS
PART F
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDLBKF+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lord of Agony on drums

130 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
85/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-17, ride through bars 18-41, hi-hat through bars 42-48, ride through bars 49-73 and hi-hat through bars 74-130.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 26-28, and 7 more places -- 23.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Lord of Agony -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 37, 41, 81 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Bars 14-34 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 30-43 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 46-77 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Lord of Agony?

160 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 Lord of Agony hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 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 Lord of Agony?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 37, 41, 81 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED