Suicide Veil · Anathema

47 bars, 2:33, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

ProgressiveMetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
47
LENGTH
2:33
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 3 more places -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 74 BPM
SUICIDE VEIL · BAR 5
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 12, 16, 18, 34, 36, 38 and 4 more.

LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

47 bars across 3 sections: 8 keep time, 10 are fills, 12 are stops and 17 are silent.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesS3CS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Suicide Veil?

74 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Suicide Veil hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

47 bars, about 2:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Suicide Veil?

9 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 12, 16, 18, 34, 36, 38 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 47 BARS ANALYSED
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