To Thou Who Dwellest In The Night · Arcturus

259 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 5:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
259
LENGTH
5:19
DIFFICULTY
96/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57, 59-61 and 63, and 17 more places -- 12% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 195 BPM
TO THOU WHO DWELLEST IN THE NIGHT · BAR 57
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 20, 28, 32, 34, 36, 40 and 22 more.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

259 bars across 21 sections: 204 keep time, 28 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-16.

PART A
PART L
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART AK
PART AD
PART AX
CHORUS 3
14 groovesOLAXAKA+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is To Thou Who Dwellest In The Night?

195 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 To Thou Who Dwellest In The Night hard to play on drums?

96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

259 bars, about 5:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 87 exercises over 32 sittings, about 25 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 To Thou Who Dwellest In The Night?

20 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 20, 28, 32, 34, 36, 40 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 259 BARS ANALYSED
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