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Beauty And The Beast · Nightwish

EXERCISE 1 OF 78
Groove F -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART S13
PART S
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO 2
16 groovesFSNS13AI+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 16
LINK · 8
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Beauty And The Beast on drums

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.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
5:02
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-3, kick and crashes through bars 4-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, kick and crashes through bars 33-46, snare through bars 47-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-82, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Beauty And The Beast -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- F, S -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-43 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part S7 and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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