Winter Solstice · Ostiary

267 bars of 4/4 at 151 BPM, about 7:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
151 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
267
LENGTH
7:09
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 21 more places -- 25.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 151 BPM
WINTER SOLSTICE · BAR 167
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 15, 16, 32, 112, 119, 120 and 13 more.

LOOP · 151 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 151 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 151 BPM
BAR 112 · LANDS ON BAR 113
LOOP · 151 BPM
BARS 119-120 · LANDS ON BAR 121 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

267 bars across 19 sections: 141 keep time, 19 are fills, 57 are stops and 40 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 214-227.

CHORUS
PART I
BREAK 2
PART S6
PART R
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART AP
OUTRO
15 groovesAIATRS6+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Winter Solstice?

151 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 Winter Solstice hard to play on drums?

54 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

267 bars, about 7:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 15 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 Winter Solstice?

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 15, 16, 32, 112, 119, 120 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 267 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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