Shouting Fire At A Funeral · Jeff Loomis

154 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 4:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 34-40, 42-47 and 70-76, and 3 more places -- 26.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 128 BPM
SHOUTING FIRE AT A FUNERAL · BARS 36-37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 19, 21 and 37 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 14 sections: 89 keep time, 43 are fills, 9 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 92-101.

PART S2
PART E
PART I
PART E
CHORUS
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART AB
PART E
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesNEABSI+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shouting Fire At A Funeral?

128 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 Shouting Fire At A Funeral hard to play on drums?

59 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 13 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Shouting Fire At A Funeral?

20 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 19, 21 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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