Paint a new world · Helloween

171 bars of 4/4 at 153 BPM, about 4:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-8, 10-12 and 47-49, and 13 more places -- 27.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 153 BPM
PAINT A NEW WORLD · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 4, 5, 20, 21, 22, 38 and 26 more.

LOOP · 153 BPM
BARS 4-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 153 BPM
BARS 20-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 153 BPM
BARS 41-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

171 bars across 18 sections: 117 keep time, 32 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 88-102.

PART E
PART G
PART K
CHORUS
PART F
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART S
OUTRO
12 groovesMKEVG+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Paint a new world?

153 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 Paint a new world hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 18 sittings, about 28 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 Paint a new world?

14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 4, 5, 20, 21, 22, 38 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED
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