Sadly Sings Destiny · Blind Guardian

196 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 5:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
196
LENGTH
5:57
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-44, 46-47 and 50-52, and 5 more places -- 9.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 132 BPM
SADLY SINGS DESTINY · BAR 42
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 4, 16, 36, 40, 48, 55 and 53 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

196 bars across 22 sections: 107 keep time and 59 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-47.

CHORUS
PART AI
PART P
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
19 groovesLAIAFPE+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sadly Sings Destiny?

132 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Sadly Sings Destiny hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

196 bars, about 5:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 92 exercises over 33 sittings, about 25 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 Sadly Sings Destiny?

21 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 4, 16, 36, 40, 48, 55 and 53 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 196 BARS ANALYSED
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