My Selene · Sonata Arctica

205 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 5:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
205
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
87/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 42-48, and 14 more places -- 47.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 154 BPM
MY SELENE · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 16, 29, 38, 39, 40 and 26 more.

LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 154 BPM
BARS 38-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 8 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

205 bars across 12 sections: 151 keep time, 32 are fills, 13 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 138-152.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART G
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAGDJS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Selene?

154 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 My Selene hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

205 bars, about 5:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 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 My Selene?

13 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 16, 29, 38, 39, 40 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 205 BARS ANALYSED
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