The Way Of The Fire · Wintersun

635 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 200 BPM, 9:54 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
635
LENGTH
9:54
DIFFICULTY
98/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 25-28 and 34-38, and 13 more places -- 13.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
THE WAY OF THE FIRE · BAR 23
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

53 fills to learn, played 148 times: bars 24, 29, 30, 31, 32, 39 and 142 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 29-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 42-43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 45-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

49 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

635 bars across 36 sections: 336 keep time, 148 are fills, 52 are stops and 54 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 526-549.

PART I
PART BD
PART S30
27 groovesBICOS30BD+22Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Way Of The Fire?

200 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Way Of The Fire hard to play on drums?

98 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 97 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

635 bars, about 9:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 169 exercises over 60 sittings, about 27 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 The Way Of The Fire?

53 fills to learn, played 148 times: bars 24, 29, 30, 31, 32, 39 and 142 more.

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