Vastness And Sorrow · Wolves In The Throne Room

421 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 11:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
421
LENGTH
11:05
DIFFICULTY
89/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 133-196 -- 15.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 152 BPM
VASTNESS AND SORROW · BAR 134
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28 and 15 more.

LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

421 bars across 16 sections: 352 keep time, 21 are fills, 18 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 358-412.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART J
PART L
PART F
PART P
OUTRO
11 groovesBFOJI+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Vastness And Sorrow?

152 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 Vastness And Sorrow hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

421 bars, about 11:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 13 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 Vastness And Sorrow?

5 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 421 BARS ANALYSED
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