Cruelty Brought Thee Orchids · Cradle Of Filth

277 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 7:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
277
LENGTH
7:26
DIFFICULTY
92/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 58-72, 82-97 and 230-244, and 1 more place -- 18.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
CRUELTY BROUGHT THEE ORCHIDS · BAR 60
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 45 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 1-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 7-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

277 bars across 22 sections: 165 keep time, 51 are fills, 13 are stops and 26 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 107-119.

PART Q
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AI
PART AL
PART AP
PART AS
PART AI
PART AL
CHORUS 3
BREAK
16 groovesYAIALAPS22+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cruelty Brought Thee Orchids?

160 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Cruelty Brought Thee Orchids hard to play on drums?

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

277 bars, about 7:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 85 exercises over 32 sittings, about 24 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 Cruelty Brought Thee Orchids?

22 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 277 BARS ANALYSED
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