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Wings of Funeral · Morbid

EXERCISE 1 OF 43
Groove H -- Chorus
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PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART T
OUTRO
10 groovesHQTCU+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wings of Funeral on drums

112 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
75/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-9, silence through bars 10-13, hi-hat through bars 14-17, kick and crashes through bars 18-19 and hi-hat through bars 20-53, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 20 and 22, and 15 more places -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Wings of Funeral -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 7, 12, 13, 34, 52 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 4-14 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 34-62 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 54-78 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Wings of Funeral?

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 Wings of Funeral hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 Wings of Funeral?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 7, 12, 13, 34, 52 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED