When The Last Grave Has Emptied · The Black Dahlia Murder

100 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-26, 54-60 and 92-98 -- 21% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 115 BPM
WHEN THE LAST GRAVE HAS EMPTIED · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 5, 9, 15, 16, 19, 31 and 16 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 11 sections: 63 keep time, 22 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 63-77.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesKSDOB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is When The Last Grave Has Emptied?

115 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 When The Last Grave Has Emptied hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 18 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 When The Last Grave Has Emptied?

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 5, 9, 15, 16, 19, 31 and 16 more.

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