Hate Cult Ritual · Whitechapel

157 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:56 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreRock150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
95/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 17 and 19, and 4 more places -- 8.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
HATE CULT RITUAL · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

27 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 12, 16, 18, 20, 24, 26 and 44 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

23 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

157 bars across 20 sections: 75 keep time, 50 are fills, 2 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 107-113.

COUNT-IN
PART H
PART L
PART Q
PART O
PART Y
PART AB
CHORUS 4
PART AH
PART AL
PART AP
PART A
OUTRO 2
15 groovesBAPALDBH+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hate Cult Ritual?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Hate Cult Ritual hard to play on drums?

95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 99 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 76 exercises over 25 sittings, about 26 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 Hate Cult Ritual?

27 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 12, 16, 18, 20, 24, 26 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED
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