Medusa And Hemlock · Cradle Of Filth

168 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:11 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25, 35-41 and 43-49, and 4 more places -- 27.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 160 BPM
MEDUSA AND HEMLOCK · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 18, 34, 42, 68, 84, 92 and 5 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 116 · LANDS ON BAR 117

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

168 bars across 23 sections: 123 keep time, 11 are fills, 3 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 155-166.

PART D
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART O
OUTRO 2
10 groovesIROGK+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Medusa And Hemlock?

160 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 Medusa And Hemlock hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 16 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 Medusa And Hemlock?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 18, 34, 42, 68, 84, 92 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED
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