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Unto The Catacombs Of The Pharaoh · Eyes Of Wrath

EXERCISE 5 OF 42
Groove AC -- Outro 2 (a two-bar phrase)
26 / 91 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART B
PART C
PART F
PART B
CHORUS
PART S
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesLBFACX+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Unto The Catacombs Of The Pharaoh on drums

82 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 1:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
1:43
DIFFICULTY
85/100

ride through bars 1-32, snare through bars 33-50, hi-hat through bars 51-59, snare through bars 60-71, hi-hat through bars 72-75 and snare through bars 76-82.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-17 and 19-25 -- 13.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    14
    1.......
RD |x--x-x--|
SD |-x--x--x|
BD |x--x-x--|
Unto The Catacombs Of The Pharaoh -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 27, 38, 44, 58, 59, 83 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 7-26 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Unto The Catacombs Of The Pharaoh?

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

Is Unto The Catacombs Of The Pharaoh hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 1:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 15 sittings, about 23 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 Unto The Catacombs Of The Pharaoh?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 27, 38, 44, 58, 59, 83 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED