From Afar · Ensiferum

243 bars at 205 BPM -- fast, and 4:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
205 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
243
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
95/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-32, 52-67 and 100-105, and 4 more places -- 30.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 205 BPM
FROM AFAR · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 16, 43, 51, 83, 99, 106 and 13 more.

LOOP · 205 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 205 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44
LOOP · 205 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52
LOOP · 205 BPM
BAR 83 · LANDS ON BAR 84 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

243 bars across 15 sections: 178 keep time, 20 are fills, 32 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 117-147.

PART A
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART M
CHORUS 4
PART V
OUTRO
9 groovesCMAFI+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is From Afar?

205 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 From Afar hard to play on drums?

95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 86 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

243 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 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 From Afar?

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 16, 43, 51, 83, 99, 106 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 243 BARS ANALYSED
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