Dark Chest Of Wonders · Nightwish

110 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 4:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 29, and 5 more places -- 15.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 95 BPM
DARK CHEST OF WONDERS · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 50, 53 and 16 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 5-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 53-54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 57-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 12 sections: 72 keep time, 22 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-47.

PART A
PART F
CHORUS
PART R
PART W
PART AD
PART AJ
PART AD
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesIRFADA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dark Chest Of Wonders?

95 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 Dark Chest Of Wonders hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 Dark Chest Of Wonders?

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 50, 53 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED
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