While Your Lips Are Still Red · Nightwish

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-43 and 68-83 -- 36.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
WHILE YOUR LIPS ARE STILL RED · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 84.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 84
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 11 sections: 51 keep time, 1 is a fill, 2 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 68-83.

PART S2
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGDS2FE+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is While Your Lips Are Still Red?

100 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 While Your Lips Are Still Red hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 While Your Lips Are Still Red?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 84.

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