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Ebony Dressed For Sunset · Cradle Of Filth

EXERCISE 23 OF 26
Groove K -- Outro 2
62 / 69 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ebony Dressed For Sunset on drums

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.

99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
2:11
DIFFICULTY
99/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-6, silence through bars 7-9, ride through bars 10-17 and hi-hat through bars 18-45, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    35
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Ebony Dressed For Sunset -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- G -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-11 -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 10 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 34-57 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED