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Dark Chest Of Wonders · Nightwish

EXERCISE 1 OF 46
Groove F -- Part F
0 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dark Chest Of Wonders on drums

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.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
73/100

toms through bars 2-4, hi-hat through bars 5-17, ride through bars 18-26, hi-hat through bars 27-34, ride through bars 35-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-50, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Dark Chest Of Wonders -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 2-21 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part R and Part W -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part W and Part AD -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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