Morbid Tales · Celtic Frost

122 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-34, 43-58 and 91-106, and 1 more place -- 45.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
MORBID TALES · BARS 19-20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 11 sections: 104 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-81.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART D
PART G
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEGDBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Morbid Tales?

120 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 Morbid Tales hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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