Wishmaster · Nightwish

187 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 4:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
187
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 29-31 and 33-34, and 11 more places -- 28.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 174 BPM
WISHMASTER · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 37 more.

LOOP · 174 BPM
BARS 1-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

187 bars across 21 sections: 112 keep time, 43 are fills and 9 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-15.

CHORUS
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 6
PART AA
OUTRO
7 groovesFPJAAZ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wishmaster?

174 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 Wishmaster hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

187 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 Wishmaster?

12 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 187 BARS ANALYSED
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