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Thirteen Autumns And A Widow · Cradle Of Filth

EXERCISE 22 OF 80
Join Chorus 2 to Part K (bars 72-74)
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0 / 80 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART K
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
BREAK 2
9 groovesS21BHAHK+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 9
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Thirteen Autumns And A Widow on drums

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.

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
250 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
293
LENGTH
6:34
DIFFICULTY
86/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-33, ride through bars 34-41, hi-hat through bars 42-43, snare through bars 44-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-51, and 26 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    4
    1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6.......
CC |x---g---x---g---x---g---x---g---x---g---x---g---|
SD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
Thirteen Autumns And A Widow -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 42-74 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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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