Nightside Of Eden · Therion

282 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 7:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
282
LENGTH
7:39
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-43, 45-51 and 77-83, and 3 more places -- 15.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
NIGHTSIDE OF EDEN · BAR 38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 19, 20, 36, 44, 71, 72 and 29 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

282 bars across 21 sections: 194 keep time, 35 are fills, 14 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-18.

PART A
PART D
PART G
PART G
PART U
PART Y
PART AC
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesJGAEDA+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nightside Of Eden?

135 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 Nightside Of Eden hard to play on drums?

54 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

282 bars, about 7:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Nightside Of Eden?

12 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 19, 20, 36, 44, 71, 72 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 282 BARS ANALYSED
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