Somewhere Far Beyond · Blind Guardian

347 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 7:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
347
LENGTH
7:18
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-15, 26-28 and 30, and 19 more places -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 190 BPM
SOMEWHERE FAR BEYOND · BAR 44
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

28 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 16, 17, 25, 42, 43, 50 and 55 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 42-43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 50-51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

24 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

347 bars across 36 sections: 243 keep time, 61 are fills, 4 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 166-184.

CHORUS 7
PART J
14 groovesGJAUAKU+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Somewhere Far Beyond?

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 Somewhere Far Beyond hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

347 bars, about 7:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 85 exercises over 24 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 Somewhere Far Beyond?

28 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 16, 17, 25, 42, 43, 50 and 55 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 347 BARS ANALYSED
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