aaa · Nightfall Of Sorrows

131 bars at 230 BPM -- fast, and 2:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
230 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
2:18
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-22, 24-30 and 77-82, and 3 more places -- 31% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 230 BPM
AAA · BAR 77
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 15, 23 and 11 more.

LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 11 sections: 102 keep time, 17 are fills and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-75.

PART D
CHORUS
PART H
PART D
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART H
OUTRO
6 groovesFHDLS8+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is aaa?

230 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 aaa hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 2:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 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 aaa?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 15, 23 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED
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