Princess Of The Night · Saxon

207 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 3:57 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
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
207
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29 and 33, and 29 more places -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 210 BPM
PRINCESS OF THE NIGHT · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 62, 79, 80, 96, 110 and 6 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 79-80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 110 · LANDS ON BAR 111 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

207 bars across 13 sections: 125 keep time, 12 are fills, 31 are stops and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-60.

COUNT-IN
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART L
PART N
PART L
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDLAFN+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Princess Of The Night?

210 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 Princess Of The Night hard to play on drums?

53 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

207 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 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 Princess Of The Night?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 62, 79, 80, 96, 110 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 207 BARS ANALYSED
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