Planet Hell · Nightwish

151 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 4:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-39, 41-43 and 53-55, and 7 more places -- 18.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 146 BPM
PLANET HELL · BAR 38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 40, 44, 48, 52, 56, 80 and 5 more.

LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 135 · LANDS ON BAR 136
LOOP · 146 BPM
BARS 150-151 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

151 bars across 17 sections: 101 keep time, 12 are fills, 1 is a stop and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 89-106.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 4
PART I
PART U
PART N
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
8 groovesGINBS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Planet Hell?

146 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 Planet Hell hard to play on drums?

59 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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 Planet Hell?

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 40, 44, 48, 52, 56, 80 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED
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