Огни Остары [Fires of Ostara] · Я и Друг Мой Миннезингер [Me and My Friend, the Minnesinger]

153 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-22, 25-27 and 29-30, and 11 more places -- 24.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
ОГНИ ОСТАРЫ [FIRES OF OSTARA] · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 23, 24, 28, 31, 32 and 22 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 16 sections: 101 keep time, 28 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 97-110.

PART C
CHORUS
PART L
PART A
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART L
PART A
PART P
OUTRO
7 groovesHABPL+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Огни Остары [Fires of Ostara]?

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 Огни Остары [Fires of Ostara] hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 14 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 Огни Остары [Fires of Ostara]?

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 23, 24, 28, 31, 32 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
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