Sons Of Northern Darkness · Immortal

222 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 4:02 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
222
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 37-39 and 41-43, and 15 more places -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 220 BPM
SONS OF NORTHERN DARKNESS · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 20, 24, 28 and 21 more.

LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

222 bars across 14 sections: 178 keep time, 27 are fills, 3 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 112-152.

PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART W
PART X
PART S
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
8 groovesPSXEW+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sons Of Northern Darkness?

220 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 Sons Of Northern Darkness hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 83 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

222 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Sons Of Northern Darkness?

11 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 20, 24, 28 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 222 BARS ANALYSED
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