Sons Of Winter And Stars · Wintersun

666 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 146 BPM, 15:06 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
666
LENGTH
15:06
DIFFICULTY
87/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 256, 258-259 and 261, and 54 more places -- 12.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 146 BPM
SONS OF WINTER AND STARS · BAR 410
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

46 fills to learn, played 126 times: bars 27, 31, 32, 39, 40, 47 and 120 more.

LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 146 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BARS 47-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

42 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

666 bars across 48 sections: 327 keep time, 126 are fills, 19 are stops and 129 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 593-612.

CHORUS
PART DA
33 groovesS31CYIEPDA+28Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sons Of Winter And Stars?

146 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Sons Of Winter And Stars hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

666 bars, about 15:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 184 exercises over 69 sittings, about 25 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 Sons Of Winter And Stars?

46 fills to learn, played 126 times: bars 27, 31, 32, 39, 40, 47 and 120 more.

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