Thus Spake The Nightspirit · Emperor

150 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 4:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 102-104, 106-107 and 110-112, and 9 more places -- 20.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 118 BPM
THUS SPAKE THE NIGHTSPIRIT · BAR 102
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 63 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 57 more.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BARS 1-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

150 bars across 12 sections: 53 keep time, 64 are fills, 21 are stops and 4 are silent.

CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART AD
CHORUS 4
PART AE
CHORUS 5
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHARNADAE+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Thus Spake The Nightspirit?

118 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Thus Spake The Nightspirit 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 19 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 Thus Spake The Nightspirit?

21 fills to learn, played 63 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 57 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED
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