Over The Hills And Far Away · Nightwish

172 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 5:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
5:03
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-47, 67-73 and 125-131, and 2 more places -- 20.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 136 BPM
OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 40, 50, 58 and 14 more.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

172 bars across 16 sections: 126 keep time, 20 are fills, 9 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 149-172.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesKAAAGI+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Over The Hills And Far Away?

136 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Over The Hills And Far Away hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 5:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 15 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 Over The Hills And Far Away?

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 40, 50, 58 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED
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