Speed Of Light · Stratovarius

120 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 2:55 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 27-33 and 43-49, and 8 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 165 BPM
SPEED OF LIGHT · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 16, 17, 26, 42, 64 and 10 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 16 sections: 77 keep time, 19 are fills, 8 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 69-77.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART F
CHORUS 5
PART S13
CHORUS 6
9 groovesCFS13S1A+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Speed Of Light?

165 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 Speed Of Light hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 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 Speed Of Light?

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 16, 17, 26, 42, 64 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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