Sacrament Of Wilderness · Nightwish

150 bars of 4/4 at 145 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
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 67-82, 125-127 and 129-131, and 4 more places -- 23% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
SACRAMENT OF WILDERNESS · BAR 68
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 23 and 10 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 4-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

150 bars across 14 sections: 102 keep time, 17 are fills, 13 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 68-82.

PART G
PART G
PART J
PART O
CHORUS
PART G
PART W
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesUJGOW+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sacrament Of Wilderness?

145 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 Sacrament Of Wilderness hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 10 sittings, about 30 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 Sacrament Of Wilderness?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 23 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED
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