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Permanent Funeral · Pig Destroyer

EXERCISE 10 OF 74
Groove E -- Part E (a two-bar phrase)
77 / 162 BARS COVERED
0 / 74 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
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
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Permanent Funeral on drums

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.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
75/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-49, hi-hat through bars 50-84, snare through bars 85-93, hi-hat through bars 94-95 and snare through bars 96-103, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Permanent Funeral -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- N -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 31-62 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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