Ebony Dressed For Sunset · Cradle Of Filth

69 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 2:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
2:11
DIFFICULTY
99/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-44 and 54-65 -- 35.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 126 BPM
EBONY DRESSED FOR SUNSET · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 17 and 45.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

69 bars across 10 sections: 54 keep time, 2 are fills, 3 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-33.

PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGFCIA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ebony Dressed For Sunset?

126 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Ebony Dressed For Sunset hard to play on drums?

99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 83 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 2:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 9 sittings, about 22 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 Ebony Dressed For Sunset?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 17 and 45.

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