Du Nordavind · Arcturus

162 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 190 BPM, 4:36 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3, 6-7 and 10-11, and 5 more places -- 14.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
DU NORDAVIND · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 16, 22, 48, 54, 68, 88 and 3 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 88-89 · LANDS ON BAR 90 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 97 · LANDS ON BAR 98

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

162 bars across 12 sections: 85 keep time, 9 are fills, 5 are stops and 52 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-12.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART W
BREAK 2
10 groovesS12EBWM+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Du Nordavind?

190 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Du Nordavind hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 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 Du Nordavind?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 16, 22, 48, 54, 68, 88 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED
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