Gandalf's Rebirth · Blind Guardian

82 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
2:11
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 15-17 and 19-21, and 10 more places -- 28% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 150 BPM
GANDALF'S REBIRTH · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 14, 18, 38, 42, 46, 66 and 3 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 7 sections: 52 keep time, 9 are fills and 13 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 48-56.

PART B
CHORUS
PART H
PART K
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEKABHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gandalf's Rebirth?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Gandalf's Rebirth hard to play on drums?

55 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 2:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Gandalf's Rebirth?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 14, 18, 38, 42, 46, 66 and 3 more.

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