Will the Sun Rise? · Stratovarius

176 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
5:01
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-14, 28-29 and 32, and 14 more places -- 52.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
WILL THE SUN RISE? · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 7, 8, 25, 33, 40, 41 and 20 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 40-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 10 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

176 bars across 18 sections: 114 keep time, 26 are fills, 3 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-24.

PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART S10
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
12 groovesEIS10WF+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Will the Sun Rise??

140 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 Will the Sun Rise? hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 5:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 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 Will the Sun Rise??

13 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 7, 8, 25, 33, 40, 41 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED
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