Thirteen Autumns And A Widow · Cradle Of Filth

293 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 250 BPM, 6:34 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
250 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
293
LENGTH
6:34
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-5, 8-9 and 12-13, and 15 more places -- 19.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 250 BPM
THIRTEEN AUTUMNS AND A WIDOW · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 17, 19, 23, 27, 31, 49 and 26 more.

LOOP · 250 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 250 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 250 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 250 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

293 bars across 21 sections: 130 keep time, 32 are fills, 14 are stops and 90 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 199-209.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK 2
9 groovesS21BHAHK+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Thirteen Autumns And A Widow?

250 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Thirteen Autumns And A Widow hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

293 bars, about 6:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 23 sittings, about 24 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 Thirteen Autumns And A Widow?

18 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 17, 19, 23, 27, 31, 49 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 293 BARS ANALYSED
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