Solarfall · Immortal

210 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:39 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
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
210
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 56-57, 59-61 and 63, and 10 more places -- 14.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
SOLARFALL · BAR 56
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 1, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 23 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 7-11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 25-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

210 bars across 20 sections: 154 keep time, 29 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 73-87.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART T
PART X
PART X
CHORUS 3
PART K
OUTRO
10 groovesBTKXAD+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Solarfall?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Solarfall hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

210 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 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 Solarfall?

10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 1, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 210 BARS ANALYSED
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