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She Is My Sin · Nightwish

EXERCISE 30 OF 61
Fill at bar 64 and 108 (a small one)
153 / 179 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
PART A
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART U
PART P
OUTRO
8 groovesILABPA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play She Is My Sin on drums

179 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 4:37 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
58/100

toms through bars 1-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-14, toms through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-22, toms through bars 23-24 and hi-hat through bars 25-54, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-30, 35-36 and 49-54, and 9 more places -- 23.1% 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
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x-----|
She Is My Sin -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 7, 8, 10, 15, 16, 23 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- L, I -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-17 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 45-126 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part U -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is She Is My Sin?

155 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 She Is My Sin hard to play on drums?

58 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

179 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 12 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 She Is My Sin?

14 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 7, 8, 10, 15, 16, 23 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 179 BARS ANALYSED