Gethsemane · Nightwish

166 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 5:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
5:11
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-26, 57-62 and 73, and 13 more places -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 126 BPM
GETHSEMANE · BAR 73
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 5, 11, 27, 28, 41, 47 and 3 more.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 110 · LANDS ON BAR 111
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

166 bars across 14 sections: 115 keep time, 10 are fills, 5 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 65-96.

PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART AG
PART S9
OUTRO 2
9 groovesODAGLB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gethsemane?

126 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 Gethsemane hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 5:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Gethsemane?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 5, 11, 27, 28, 41, 47 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED
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