Better To Reign In Hell · Cradle Of Filth

250 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 6:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
250
LENGTH
6:20
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 38-40 and 74-80, and 6 more places -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BETTER TO REIGN IN HELL · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 17, 41, 57, 65, 81 and 18 more.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

250 bars across 34 sections: 144 keep time, 24 are fills, 26 are stops and 37 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 150-161.

CHORUS 2
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 6
PART AI
OUTRO 2
20 groovesDBAINQ+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Better To Reign In Hell?

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

Is Better To Reign In Hell hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

250 bars, about 6:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 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 Better To Reign In Hell?

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 17, 41, 57, 65, 81 and 18 more.

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