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Into the Crypts of Rays · Celtic Frost

EXERCISE 29 OF 31
Play the whole song with the record
144 / 149 BARS COVERED
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART J
PART S
BREAK
OUTRO
5 groovesBSJS5S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Into the Crypts of Rays on drums

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.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
77/100

hi-hat through bars 2-65, ride through bars 66-77, kick and crashes through bars 78-79, ride through bars 80-85, silence through bars 86-87 and hi-hat through bars 88-149.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--|
Into the Crypts of Rays -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 78-86 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
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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