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Bathory Aria · Cradle Of Filth

EXERCISE 18 OF 99
Fill at bar 49
124 / 417 BARS COVERED
0 / 99 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART H
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK 3
19 groovesS26BJS25O+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 3
JOIN · 19
LINK · 10
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bathory Aria on drums

417 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 200 BPM, 10:35 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
417
LENGTH
10:35
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-32, toms through bars 33-34, snare through bars 35-49, hi-hat through bars 50-65 and kick and crashes through bars 66-69, and 30 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-56, 58-64 and 82-91, and 3 more places -- 16.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    50
    1.....2.....3.....4.....5.....6.....
CC |x-----------------------------------|
HH |------o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--|
SD |---x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x--|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Bathory Aria -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 21, 25, 29, 33, 34, 49 and 40 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 76 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 -- J, B -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part J -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 50-74 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 72-98 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part S -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bathory Aria?

200 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Bathory Aria hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

417 bars, about 10:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 76 exercises over 21 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Bathory Aria?

22 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 21, 25, 29, 33, 34, 49 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 417 BARS ANALYSED