The Last Candle · Blind Guardian

229 bars at 182 BPM -- fast, and 5:02 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
182 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
229
LENGTH
5:02
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 19-25 and 27-33, and 19 more places -- 49.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 182 BPM
THE LAST CANDLE · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 22 more.

LOOP · 182 BPM
BARS 5-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 182 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 182 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 182 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

229 bars across 9 sections: 187 keep time, 28 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 183-205.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART P
CHORUS 3
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGPALFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Last Candle?

182 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 The Last Candle hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

229 bars, about 5:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 The Last Candle?

12 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 229 BARS ANALYSED
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