Beauty And The Beast · Nightwish

171 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 5:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
5:02
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 25-27 and 29-31, and 8 more places -- 21.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 28, 32, 42, 50, 58, 62 and 16 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

171 bars across 21 sections: 81 keep time, 22 are fills, 34 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-24.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART S13
PART S
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
16 groovesFSNS13AI+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Beauty And The Beast?

135 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 Beauty And The Beast hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 5:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Beauty And The Beast?

13 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 28, 32, 42, 50, 58, 62 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED
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