Northern Comfort · Children Of Bodom

173 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-12 and 14-16, and 15 more places -- 39.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 185 BPM
NORTHERN COMFORT · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 1, 9, 13, 17, 25, 33 and 23 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

173 bars across 11 sections: 109 keep time, 29 are fills and 25 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 115-123.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART P
CHORUS 3
PART V
PART Y
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBLGVP+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Northern Comfort?

185 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 Northern Comfort hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 Northern Comfort?

17 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 1, 9, 13, 17, 25, 33 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED
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