Dark Norway Story · ..Durgius..

107 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:41 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-36, 40-54 and 74-78, and 1 more place -- 43.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 160 BPM
DARK NORWAY STORY · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 21, 29, 30, 31, 55, 71 and 8 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 29-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 104-107 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 8 sections: 60 keep time, 14 are fills, 21 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 80-98.

PART C
PART F
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesIFCAS2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dark Norway Story?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Dark Norway Story hard to play on drums?

48 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?

107 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Norway Story?

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 21, 29, 30, 31, 55, 71 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED
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