The Wind Beneath My Wings · Sonata Arctica

156 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-13, 15-21 and 23-29, and 20 more places -- 48.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 135 BPM
THE WIND BENEATH MY WINGS · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 68, 90, 106, 114, 143, 144 and 2 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 90 · LANDS ON BAR 91
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 106 · LANDS ON BAR 107
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 143-144 · LANDS ON BAR 145 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 12 sections: 98 keep time, 8 are fills, 30 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-61.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART M
PART O
PART R
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBDCJR+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Wind Beneath My Wings?

135 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 Wind Beneath My Wings hard to play on drums?

60 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Wind Beneath My Wings?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 68, 90, 106, 114, 143, 144 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED
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