My Funeral · Dark Funeral

197 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:56 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
197
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 45-47 and 49-51, and 12 more places -- 29.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 160 BPM
MY FUNERAL · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 6, 12, 14, 20, 28, 36 and 35 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

197 bars across 14 sections: 126 keep time, 41 are fills, 17 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 141-148.

PART B
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 4
PART B
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFBHJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Funeral?

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 My Funeral hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

197 bars, about 4:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in My Funeral?

20 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 6, 12, 14, 20, 28, 36 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 197 BARS ANALYSED
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