The Curse Of Feanor · Blind Guardian

219 bars of 4/4 at 153 BPM, about 5:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
219
LENGTH
5:44
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 21-23, and 26 more places -- 26.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 153 BPM
THE CURSE OF FEANOR · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

25 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 36 and 45 more.

LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

21 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

219 bars across 17 sections: 134 keep time, 51 are fills and 14 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 112-121.

CHORUS
PART M
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART Q
CHORUS 4
PART Q
CHORUS 5
PART Q
9 groovesIQAKMAS+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Curse Of Feanor?

153 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 The Curse Of Feanor hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

219 bars, about 5:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 19 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 The Curse Of Feanor?

25 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 36 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 219 BARS ANALYSED
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