Winds of Time · Wings of Steel

312 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 10:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
312
LENGTH
10:25
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-13, 15 and 17-20, and 13 more places -- 21.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 118 BPM
WINDS OF TIME · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

27 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 34 and 48 more.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BARS 34-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53

24 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

312 bars across 21 sections: 159 keep time, 54 are fills, 61 are stops and 28 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 94-108.

CHORUS
PART AI
PART S10
PART AS
PART Y
PART BF
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
18 groovesGAIYASS10+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Winds of Time?

118 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Winds of Time hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 86 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

312 bars, about 10:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 22 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 Winds of Time?

27 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 34 and 48 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 312 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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