Night Of The Graveless Souls · Emperor

130 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 13-15 and 53-55, and 3 more places -- 15.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
NIGHT OF THE GRAVELESS SOULS · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 20, 24, 28 and 15 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 25 sections: 73 keep time, 21 are fills, 8 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-36.

PART J
CHORUS 3
PART T
PART J
OUTRO
9 groovesAJEOC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Night Of The Graveless Souls?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Night Of The Graveless Souls hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 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 Night Of The Graveless Souls?

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 20, 24, 28 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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