Lightning Snow · Woods Of Ypres

160 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-14, 65-70 and 137-142 -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
LIGHTNING SNOW · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 15, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24 and 40 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 11 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 18 sections: 86 keep time, 46 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-63.

PART E
PART I
PART L
CHORUS
PART Z
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesPEAGIL+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lightning Snow?

140 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 Lightning Snow hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 15 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 Lightning Snow?

12 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 15, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED
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