Into the Crypts of Rays · Celtic Frost

149 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 3:24 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 12-14 and 16, and 36 more places -- 53.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 174 BPM
INTO THE CRYPTS OF RAYS · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 9, 33, 57, 59, 60, 61 and 20 more.

LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 174 BPM
BARS 59-69 · LANDS ON BAR 70 · PLAYED 11 TIMES
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 6 sections: 112 keep time, 26 are fills, 5 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 88-120.

CHORUS
OUTRO
5 groovesBSJS5S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Into the Crypts of Rays?

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

Is Into the Crypts of Rays hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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 Into the Crypts of Rays?

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 9, 33, 57, 59, 60, 61 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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