The Greatest Show On Earth · Nightwish

504 bars of 4/4 at a walking 83 BPM, 24:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
504
LENGTH
24:17
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 64-66, 68-70 and 72-74, and 15 more places -- 13.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 83 BPM
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH · BAR 66
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

28 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 47, 55, 71, 79, 84, 89 and 43 more.

LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 79 · LANDS ON BAR 80

24 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

504 bars across 37 sections: 263 keep time, 49 are fills, 7 are stops and 154 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 189-211.

BREAK
CHORUS 4
BREAK 3
PART AU
BREAK 4
OUTRO
21 groovesFMS36AUS21+16Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Greatest Show On Earth?

83 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 Greatest Show On Earth hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

504 bars, about 24:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 95 exercises over 22 sittings, about 28 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 Greatest Show On Earth?

28 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 47, 55, 71, 79, 84, 89 and 43 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 504 BARS ANALYSED
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