Master Passion Greed · Nightwish

189 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 4:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 65-72, 101-115 and 178-183, and 2 more places -- 18.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 175 BPM
MASTER PASSION GREED · BAR 65
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 47, 48, 63, 64, 80, 84 and 5 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 47-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 63-64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

189 bars across 22 sections: 111 keep time, 11 are fills, 30 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-22.

PART C
PART H
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART Z
PART C
OUTRO
16 groovesLCHUZ+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Master Passion Greed?

175 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 Master Passion Greed hard to play on drums?

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

189 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 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 Master Passion Greed?

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 47, 48, 63, 64, 80, 84 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 189 BARS ANALYSED
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