Beyond The North Waves · Immortal

208 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 6:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
208
LENGTH
6:43
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-13, 16-19 and 22, and 18 more places -- 29.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BEYOND THE NORTH WAVES · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 5, 25, 29, 31, 49, 53 and 22 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

208 bars across 17 sections: 104 keep time, 28 are fills, 55 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 96-102.

PART D
PART C
PART C
PART L
PART L
PART O
CHORUS
OUTRO
11 groovesACLFO+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Beyond The North Waves?

124 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Beyond The North Waves hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

208 bars, about 6:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 16 sittings, about 23 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 North Waves?

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 5, 25, 29, 31, 49, 53 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 208 BARS ANALYSED
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