Come Cover Me · Nightwish

152 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-39, 45-46 and 53-54, and 5 more places -- 47.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 145 BPM
COME COVER ME · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 56, 59, 60, 88, 104, 105 and 7 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 59-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 12 sections: 70 keep time, 13 are fills, 30 are stops and 28 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 47-52.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART G
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBDS1GK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Come Cover Me?

145 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 Come Cover Me hard to play on drums?

50 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 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 Come Cover Me?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 56, 59, 60, 88, 104, 105 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED
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