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White Hellebore · Cradle Of Filth

EXERCISE 1 OF 97
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART C
PART I
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART Z
PART T
PART C
PART AE
PART O
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
12 groovesACTOAE+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 3
JOIN · 17
LINK · 12
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play White Hellebore on drums

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.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
67/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-19, hi-hat through bars 20-33, ride through bars 34-41, snare through bars 42-47 and toms through bars 48-49, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
White Hellebore -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 75 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 -- A -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-99 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part O -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part T -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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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