Under A Funeral Moon · Darkthrone

169 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
4:40
DIFFICULTY
97/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-38, 61-76 and 131-145 -- 29.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 145 BPM
UNDER A FUNERAL MOON · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 12, 84, 108, 146, 148, 162 and 7 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 108 · LANDS ON BAR 109
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 146 · LANDS ON BAR 147

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

169 bars across 17 sections: 123 keep time, 13 are fills, 8 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 61-76.

PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART B
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
10 groovesEBDMJ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Under A Funeral Moon?

145 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 Under A Funeral Moon hard to play on drums?

97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 4:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Under A Funeral Moon?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 12, 84, 108, 146, 148, 162 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED
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