Beyond The Dark Sun · Wintersun

125 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
96/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 10-11 and 17-23, and 5 more places -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BEYOND THE DARK SUN · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 4, 12, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 24 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 9 sections: 77 keep time, 30 are fills, 6 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 91-101.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART Y
PART AG
PART AH
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCAGYAHAK+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Beyond The Dark Sun?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Beyond The Dark Sun hard to play on drums?

96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 92 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 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 Beyond The Dark Sun?

14 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 4, 12, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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