Permanent Funeral · Pig Destroyer

162 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:47 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 41-43, and 13 more places -- 19.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
PERMANENT FUNERAL · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 4, 12, 24, 28, 36, 44 and 17 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

162 bars across 13 sections: 110 keep time, 23 are fills, 10 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 87-97.

PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART Y
PART L
PART AP
OUTRO
7 groovesNLYEAP+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Permanent Funeral?

170 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 Permanent Funeral hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Permanent Funeral?

18 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 4, 12, 24, 28, 36, 44 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED
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