Cellar Door · Spiritbox

185 bars at 169 BPM -- fast, and 4:23 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
169 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-26, 29-30 and 33-34, and 5 more places -- 7.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 169 BPM
CELLAR DOOR · BARS 25-26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 21 more.

LOOP · 169 BPM
BARS 9-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 169 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 169 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 169 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

185 bars across 18 sections: 36 keep time, 27 are fills, 96 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 77-84.

PART I
PART S7
PART U
PART S12
PART A
PART S15
OUTRO
17 groovesS17S7S12S15A+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cellar Door?

169 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 Cellar Door hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Cellar Door?

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED
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