Necrophilia · Ancient North

176 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:02 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
176
LENGTH
5:02
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8, 49-55 and 97-103, and 2 more places -- 21% 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
NECROPHILIA · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 28, 32, 40 and 20 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

176 bars across 22 sections: 100 keep time, 26 are fills and 32 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-8.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 4
6 groovesBAJLG+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Necrophilia?

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 Necrophilia hard to play on drums?

62 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 5:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 Necrophilia?

13 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 28, 32, 40 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED
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