Twilight Tavern · Ensiferum

202 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 5:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
202
LENGTH
5:30
DIFFICULTY
90/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 38-41 and 46-50, and 3 more places -- 17.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 144 BPM
TWILIGHT TAVERN · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 1, 13, 20, 21, 25, 29 and 38 more.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

202 bars across 26 sections: 112 keep time, 44 are fills, 13 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 180-197.

CHORUS
BREAK
PART M
OUTRO 2
11 groovesDMFJL+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Twilight Tavern?

144 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 Twilight Tavern hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

202 bars, about 5:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 22 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Twilight Tavern?

20 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 1, 13, 20, 21, 25, 29 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 202 BARS ANALYSED
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