The Wizard · Blind Guardian

72 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 1:59 of playing, on crash, snare, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
1:59
DIFFICULTY
31/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 3% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31 and 36 -- 2.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
THE WIZARD · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 6.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 3 sections: 2 keep time, 1 is a fill, 64 are stops and 4 are silent.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Wizard?

145 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 Wizard hard to play on drums?

31 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 1:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in The Wizard?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 6.

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