Spooky funeral · Nate Dawg

145 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / Blues150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 41-43, 45-47 and 79-81, and 4 more places -- 13.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
SPOOKY FUNERAL · BARS 41-42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 12 and 10 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 22 sections: 86 keep time, 17 are fills, 14 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-43.

CHORUS
PART I
PART Y
CHORUS 2
PART Z
PART AS
PART AV
PART AZ
OUTRO
19 groovesEAZBFZAS+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Spooky funeral?

160 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 Spooky funeral hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 86 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 23 sittings, about 25 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 Spooky funeral?

11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 12 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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