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Sacrament Of Wilderness · Nightwish

EXERCISE 29 OF 51
Join Part G to Part W (bars 89-91)
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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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 9
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sacrament Of Wilderness on drums

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.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
74/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-21, snare through bars 22-24, silence through bars 25-27, hi-hat through bars 28-89 and snare through bars 90-98, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Sacrament Of Wilderness -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O, J -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-36 -- 9 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  5. Through Part O and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 79-92 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 87-113 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part O and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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