Now the ships are burned · Yngwie Malmsteen

156 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 4:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-34, 114-118 and 120-127, and 1 more place -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 152 BPM
NOW THE SHIPS ARE BURNED · BAR 114
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 16, 18, 43, 64, 66, 67 and 13 more.

LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
LOOP · 152 BPM
BARS 66-70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BARS 88-91 · LANDS ON BAR 92 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 21 sections: 94 keep time, 19 are fills, 17 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 114-127.

PART A
PART C
PART L
PART P
PART Q
PART V
PART AE
CHORUS 2
18 groovesJCAEHP+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Now the ships are burned?

152 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 Now the ships are burned hard to play on drums?

60 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 18 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Now the ships are burned?

6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 16, 18, 43, 64, 66, 67 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED
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