Nail Them To The Cross · Dark Funeral

111 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 4:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30, 32 and 34, and 6 more places -- 10% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 95 BPM
NAIL THEM TO THE CROSS · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 42 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 3-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 26-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 8 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 13 sections: 40 keep time, 48 are fills, 6 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-17.

PART S2
PART I
PART L
PART P
CHORUS
PART AD
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART AN
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesXLPIAD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nail Them To The Cross?

95 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Nail Them To The Cross hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 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 Nail Them To The Cross?

16 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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