Winter Madness · Wintersun

282 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 5:04 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
282
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
90/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-6, 10-11 and 13-14, and 5 more places -- 7.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 210 BPM
WINTER MADNESS · BAR 2
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

37 fills to learn, played 83 times: bars 7, 8, 15, 16, 25, 26 and 77 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

34 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

282 bars across 24 sections: 150 keep time, 83 are fills, 16 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 196-209.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART Z
PART CB
PART CE
PART AS
PART AD
18 groovesBCEAIAHCB+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Winter Madness?

210 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Winter Madness hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

282 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 122 exercises over 43 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Winter Madness?

37 fills to learn, played 83 times: bars 7, 8, 15, 16, 25, 26 and 77 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 282 BARS ANALYSED
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