Gilded Cunt · Cradle Of Filth

179 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:46 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO

190 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

179

LENGTH

3:46

DIFFICULTY

67/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-76, snare through bars 77-80, hi-hat through bars 81-85, snare through bars 86-88 and hi-hat through bars 89-126, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-22, 25-30 and 41-46, and 7 more places -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 24, 32 and 21 more.

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
6. Through Part H and the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
8. Bars 71-80 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
9. and 5 more sittings after that.