Algol · Nebula

111 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 22-24 and 26-33, and 2 more places -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
ALGOL · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 21, 25, 42, 44, 46, 70 and 1 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 15 sections: 82 keep time, 7 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-66.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART P
CHORUS 3
PART D
8 groovesBDLFP+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Algol?

130 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 Algol hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 13 sittings, about 23 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 Algol?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 21, 25, 42, 44, 46, 70 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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