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Beautiful Death · Wintersun

EXERCISE 15 OF 71
Fill at bar 33
147 / 219 BARS COVERED
0 / 71 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART G
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesOYLGAB+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Beautiful Death on drums

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.

97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
219
LENGTH
6:44
DIFFICULTY
97/100

silence through bars 1-14, hi-hat through bars 15-33, snare through bars 34-41, hi-hat through bars 42-49, snare through bars 50-57 and silence through bars 58-67, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    72
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Beautiful Death -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- O -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 15-26 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part L and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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