Shudder Before The Beautiful · Nightwish

246 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 5:11 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
246
LENGTH
5:11
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-31, 33-47 and 77-83, and 7 more places -- 36.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 190 BPM
SHUDDER BEFORE THE BEAUTIFUL · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 16, 32, 48, 55, 56, 64 and 31 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 55-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

246 bars across 17 sections: 177 keep time, 37 are fills, 8 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-31.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART H
OUTRO
10 groovesDHBAPAA+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shudder Before The Beautiful?

190 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 Shudder Before The Beautiful hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

246 bars, about 5:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 15 sittings, about 28 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 Shudder Before The Beautiful?

20 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 16, 32, 48, 55, 56, 64 and 31 more.

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