Ways To The Grave · Bloodbath

147 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 5:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-30 and 41-47, and 4 more places -- 22.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
WAYS TO THE GRAVE · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 20, 24, 28, 31, 32, 40 and 20 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

147 bars across 16 sections: 98 keep time, 26 are fills, 7 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-19.

PART A
CHORUS
PART M
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART W
PART Y
CHORUS 3
PART M
CHORUS 4
PART AE
11 groovesEAYMO+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ways To The Grave?

110 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 Ways To The Grave hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 Ways To The Grave?

17 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 20, 24, 28, 31, 32, 40 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED
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