Beyond The Ice · Blind Guardian

144 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:30 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 29-35 and 37-43, and 10 more places -- 41% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BEYOND THE ICE · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 16, 17, 28, 36, 47, 51 and 16 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 10 sections: 110 keep time, 22 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-14.

PART A
CHORUS
PART N
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART R
5 groovesFRNAVFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Beyond The Ice?

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

Is Beyond The Ice hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Ice?

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 16, 17, 28, 36, 47, 51 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
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