White Hellebore · Cradle Of Filth

179 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 50-56 and 153-159, and 1 more place -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
WHITE HELLEBORE · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 25 and 47 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

179 bars across 20 sections: 75 keep time, 53 are fills, 28 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

PART C
PART I
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART Z
PART T
PART C
PART AE
PART O
OUTRO 2
12 groovesACTOAE+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is White Hellebore?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 White Hellebore hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

179 bars, about 4:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 75 exercises over 21 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 White Hellebore?

21 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 25 and 47 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 179 BARS ANALYSED
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