My Spirit Will Go On · Dragonforce

386 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 7:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
386
LENGTH
7:43
DIFFICULTY
99/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 52-58, 60 and 62, and 29 more places -- 22.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
MY SPIRIT WILL GO ON · BAR 52
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 38, 46, 59, 61, 63, 88 and 31 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

386 bars across 35 sections: 274 keep time, 37 are fills, 14 are stops and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 64-82.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART I
CHORUS 4
PART I
OUTRO
16 groovesMICFX+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Spirit Will Go On?

200 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 My Spirit Will Go On hard to play on drums?

99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

386 bars, about 7:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 96 exercises over 35 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 My Spirit Will Go On?

17 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 38, 46, 59, 61, 63, 88 and 31 more.

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