The Secrets Of The Black Arts · Dark Funeral

202 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 3:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
202
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 57-80, and 5 more places -- 39.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 210 BPM
THE SECRETS OF THE BLACK ARTS · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

202 bars across 15 sections: 183 keep time, 1 is a stop and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 98-136.

CHORUS
PART C
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART D
PART C
7 groovesADCHE+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Secrets Of The Black Arts?

210 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Secrets Of The Black Arts hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

202 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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.

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