Winter Of Blame · Steps To Heaven

143 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-29, 31-32 and 35, and 12 more places -- 38.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 160 BPM
WINTER OF BLAME · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 33, 42, 60, 61, 69, 81 and 4 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 60-61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 12 sections: 102 keep time, 10 are fills, 5 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 127-141.

PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART A
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART S8
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFBOAS8+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Winter Of Blame?

160 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 Winter Of Blame hard to play on drums?

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 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 Winter Of Blame?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 33, 42, 60, 61, 69, 81 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED
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