Ride The Sky · Helloween

227 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 5:49 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
227
LENGTH
5:49
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 66% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 25-31, and 8 more places -- 65.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 156 BPM
RIDE THE SKY · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 24, 32, 70 and 8 more.

LOOP · 156 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

227 bars across 9 sections: 193 keep time, 14 are fills, 11 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 145-183.

CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFKAS3S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ride The Sky?

156 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 Ride The Sky hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

227 bars, about 5:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Ride The Sky?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 24, 32, 70 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 227 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Helloween drum parts

EVERY HELLOWEEN CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →