Tombstone · Sodom

90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 3:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-24, 35-38 and 53-56, and 2 more places -- 21.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 91 BPM
TOMBSTONE · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 9, 10, 12, 14, 19, 25 and 15 more.

LOOP · 91 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 15 sections: 51 keep time, 21 are fills, 2 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-68.

PART C
PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesJFHTC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tombstone?

91 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Tombstone hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Tombstone?

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 9, 10, 12, 14, 19, 25 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED
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