Morbid Tales · Celtic Frost

122 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

120 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

122

LENGTH

4:02

DIFFICULTY

59/100

snare through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-122.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-34, 43-58 and 91-106, and 1 more place -- 45.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    19               20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----------------|---x------------|
HH |o---------------|o-----o---------|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|x--x--x---x---x-|
BD |x-xxx-xxx-xxx-xx|x-xx-xxxx-xxx-xx|
HF |----x---x---x---|--------x---x---|

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- E, G -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
2. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
3. Bars 6-22 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
5. Bars 31-66 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
6. Through Part G and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.