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Shudder Before The Beautiful · Nightwish

EXERCISE 23 OF 77
Fill at bar 84 (a small one)
188 / 246 BARS COVERED
0 / 77 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shudder Before The Beautiful on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
246
LENGTH
5:11
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-54, snare through bars 55-56, ride through bars 57-76, hi-hat through bars 77-100, ride through bars 101-120 and hi-hat through bars 121-136, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Shudder Before The Beautiful -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- D, H -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-57 -- 10 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 84-107 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part H and the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part Y -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 246 BARS ANALYSED