The Sun No Longer Rises · Immortal

166 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalPop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-8 and 17-24, and 5 more places -- 30.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 200 BPM
THE SUN NO LONGER RISES · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 56, 64, 68, 72, 80 and 6 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

166 bars across 18 sections: 118 keep time, 12 are fills, 14 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 155-164.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFACJS6+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Sun No Longer Rises?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Sun No Longer Rises hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 96 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 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 Sun No Longer Rises?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 56, 64, 68, 72, 80 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED
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