Dusk And Her Embrace · Cradle Of Filth

180 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 6:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO

110 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

180

LENGTH

6:33

DIFFICULTY

92/100

toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, toms through bars 9-11, hi-hat through bars 12-16, toms through bars 17-19 and hi-hat through bars 20-24, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 55-57, 59-61 and 154, and 4 more places -- 6.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    55
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |----o---x---o---x---o---x---o---x---o---x---o---x---o---x---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|

17 fills to learn, played 85 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9 and 79 more.

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- Y -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
4. Through Part E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
5. Through Part E and Part S2 -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
6. Through Part P -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
7. Through Part P and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
8. Bars 29-55 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
9. and 16 more sittings after that.