The Forest Whispers My Name · Cradle Of Filth

124 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
93/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26-37 and 112-123 -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
THE FOREST WHISPERS MY NAME · BARS 26-27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 5, 9, 11, 13, 23, 25 and 35 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 14 sections: 57 keep time, 41 are fills, 10 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 113-123.

PART C
CHORUS
PART I
PART O
PART V
PART U
PART AP
OUTRO 2
13 groovesGCVOU+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Forest Whispers My Name?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is The Forest Whispers My Name hard to play on drums?

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 88 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 24 sittings, about 25 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 The Forest Whispers My Name?

21 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 5, 9, 11, 13, 23, 25 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
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