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A Nightmare For Him · Boreal Symphony

EXERCISE 1 OF 25
Groove E -- Chorus
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0 / 25 PASSED · 68 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
PART A
CHORUS
BREAK
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEALS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Nightmare For Him on drums

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

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
74/100

snare through bars 1-15, toms through bars 16-17, snare through bars 18-33, toms through bars 34-35, snare through bars 36-43 and silence through bars 44-52, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    18
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-x-x---x-x-x---x-|
A Nightmare For Him -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 34-72 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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