Far Beyond The Sun · Yngwie Malmsteen

240 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 5:41 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
240
LENGTH
5:41
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-25, 28-33 and 110, and 27 more places -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 168 BPM
FAR BEYOND THE SUN · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 4, 6, 42, 43, 50, 51 and 21 more.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BARS 42-43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BARS 50-51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

240 bars across 14 sections: 173 keep time, 27 are fills and 20 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 110-160.

PART K
PART M
PART M
PART Q
PART AD
CHORUS
PART I
8 groovesAHIMQAD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Far Beyond The Sun?

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

Is Far Beyond The Sun hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

240 bars, about 5:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 20 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 Far Beyond The Sun?

14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 4, 6, 42, 43, 50, 51 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 240 BARS ANALYSED
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