From The Cradle To The Grave · Havok

207 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
207
LENGTH
5:31
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 33-34 and 37-38, and 6 more places -- 12.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
FROM THE CRADLE TO THE GRAVE · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 67 times: bars 7, 8, 12, 20, 24, 32 and 61 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

207 bars across 17 sections: 121 keep time, 67 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 135-148.

CHORUS
PART O
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART AE
PART AI
PART AN
PART AV
10 groovesHAIDOAV+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is From The Cradle To The Grave?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 From The Cradle To The Grave hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

207 bars, about 5:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 18 sittings, about 28 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 From The Cradle To The Grave?

20 fills to learn, played 67 times: bars 7, 8, 12, 20, 24, 32 and 61 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 207 BARS ANALYSED
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