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The Funeral · Band Of Horses

The Funeral · Band Of Horses
EXERCISE 11 OF 11
Play the whole song with the record
105 / 123 BARS COVERED
0 / 11 PASSED · 123 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART S3
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBS3FS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Funeral on drums

123 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-24, toms through bars 25-26, hi-hat through bars 27-30, toms through bars 31-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-36, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-22, 27-30 and 33-36, and 8 more places -- 76.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-----x-|
BD |x-----x-----x---|
The Funeral -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part S3 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Bars 102-108 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is The Funeral?

120 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 The Funeral hard to play on drums?

44 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED