Todeswalzer · Windir

198 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
198
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
89/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 119-150 -- 17.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
TODESWALZER · BAR 120
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 28, 48, 56 and 5 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 118 · LANDS ON BAR 119
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 166 · LANDS ON BAR 167 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 190 · LANDS ON BAR 191
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

198 bars across 22 sections: 150 keep time, 11 are fills, 1 is a stop and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 119-150.

PART I
PART K
PART M
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesPDKBQ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Todeswalzer?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Todeswalzer hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

198 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 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 Todeswalzer?

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 28, 48, 56 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 198 BARS ANALYSED
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