Welcome To Dying · Blind Guardian

212 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:43 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
212
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 21-27 and 29-34, and 18 more places -- 53.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 180 BPM
WELCOME TO DYING · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 8, 16, 35, 53, 54, 55 and 19 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 53-59 · LANDS ON BAR 60 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

212 bars across 13 sections: 154 keep time, 26 are fills, 15 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 165-191.

CHORUS 2
PART T
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
5 groovesGTEAS10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Welcome To Dying?

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 Welcome To Dying hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

212 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 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 Welcome To Dying?

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 8, 16, 35, 53, 54, 55 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 212 BARS ANALYSED
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