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Beyond The Ice · Blind Guardian

EXERCISE 3 OF 53
Groove N -- Part N
78 / 144 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
PART N
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART N
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
5 groovesFRNAVFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Beyond The Ice on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
86/100

toms through bars 1-14, hi-hat through bars 15-43, toms through bars 44-48, hi-hat through bars 49-58, toms through bars 59-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-76, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Beyond The Ice -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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