A Nightmare For Him · Boreal Symphony

148 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:57 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-33, 36-38 and 40-43, and 4 more places -- 48.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 150 BPM
A NIGHTMARE FOR HIM · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 34, 35, 39, 84, 85, 86 and 3 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 34-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 84-86 · LANDS ON BAR 87 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 99 · LANDS ON BAR 100

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 6 sections: 124 keep time, 9 are fills, 2 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 122-148.

PART A
CHORUS
BREAK
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEALS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Nightmare For Him?

150 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 A Nightmare For Him hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 A Nightmare For Him?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 34, 35, 39, 84, 85, 86 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED
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