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.

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 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-|

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

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. Open above.
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.