Wanderlust · Nightwish

144 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-2, 5-6 and 9, and 6 more places -- 11.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
WANDERLUST · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 12 and 42 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 20 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 15 sections: 61 keep time, 51 are fills and 16 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-19.

PART A
PART F
CHORUS
PART L
PART A
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
8 groovesHALFZ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wanderlust?

130 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 Wanderlust hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 13 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 Wanderlust?

13 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 12 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
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