A Blaze In The Northern Sky · Darkthrone

167 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 4 more places -- 13.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
A BLAZE IN THE NORTHERN SKY · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 16, 17, 31, 33, 52, 58 and 24 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

167 bars across 13 sections: 97 keep time, 31 are fills and 23 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-15.

CHORUS
PART K
PART J
PART U
PART Q
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBQAJKJ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Blaze In The Northern Sky?

145 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 A Blaze In The Northern Sky hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 91 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 15 sittings, about 29 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 A Blaze In The Northern Sky?

16 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 16, 17, 31, 33, 52, 58 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED
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