Beautiful Death · Wintersun

219 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 6:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
219
LENGTH
6:44
DIFFICULTY
97/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-43, 45-48 and 72-86, and 6 more places -- 41.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BEAUTIFUL DEATH · BAR 72
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 15, 20, 24, 33, 40, 49 and 31 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

219 bars across 14 sections: 151 keep time, 37 are fills, 5 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 88-104.

PART G
CHORUS 2
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesOYLGAB+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Beautiful Death?

130 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 Beautiful Death hard to play on drums?

97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 96 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

219 bars, about 6:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Beautiful Death?

18 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 15, 20, 24, 33, 40, 49 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 219 BARS ANALYSED
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