Holy Light · Stratovarius

211 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 5:01 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
211
LENGTH
5:01
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-31, 41-44 and 106-108, and 4 more places -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
HOLY LIGHT · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 21, 22, 23, 32, 109, 112 and 8 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 21-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 109 · LANDS ON BAR 110 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 112-113 · LANDS ON BAR 114 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

211 bars across 21 sections: 98 keep time, 19 are fills, 24 are stops and 65 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 157-187.

BREAK 7
CHORUS 5
PART X
OUTRO
15 groovesJS13XADA+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Holy Light?

170 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 Holy Light hard to play on drums?

64 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 84 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

211 bars, about 5:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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 Holy Light?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 21, 22, 23, 32, 109, 112 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 211 BARS ANALYSED
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