Guardian Of The Night · Accept

146 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-23 and 34-36, and 17 more places -- 28.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 160 BPM
GUARDIAN OF THE NIGHT · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 48, 49, 53, 78, 79, 83 and 11 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 48-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 124-128 · LANDS ON BAR 129 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 136 · LANDS ON BAR 137

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

146 bars across 16 sections: 97 keep time, 17 are fills and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 84-95.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
PART AG
PART AI
OUTRO
7 groovesGCAIAGS+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Guardian Of The Night?

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 Guardian Of The Night hard to play on drums?

58 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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 Guardian Of The Night?

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 48, 49, 53, 78, 79, 83 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED
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