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Night Of The Graveless Souls · Emperor

EXERCISE 1 OF 51
Groove A -- Chorus 3
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART T
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
PART J
OUTRO
9 groovesAJEOC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Night Of The Graveless Souls on drums

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.

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
100/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, ride through bars 21-40, hi-hat through bars 41-60 and ride through bars 61-68, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
Night Of The Graveless Souls -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 3-9 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 24-29 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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