Bye Bye Beautiful · Nightwish

153 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 4:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 20-26, 28-34 and 38-42, and 3 more places -- 24.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BYE BYE BEAUTIFUL · BARS 20-21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 36, 37, 53, 54, 55, 56 and 13 more.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BARS 36-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BARS 53-57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BARS 83-84 · LANDS ON BAR 85 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 100 · LANDS ON BAR 101

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 14 sections: 98 keep time, 19 are fills, 4 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-35.

COUNT-IN
PART F
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART D
PART S12
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBFDNS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bye Bye Beautiful?

148 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 Bye Bye Beautiful hard to play on drums?

49 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Bye Bye Beautiful?

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 36, 37, 53, 54, 55, 56 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
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