COPY of Black Dragon by The Nexus · MIsc Covers

302 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 7:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
302
LENGTH
7:17
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 82-90, 92 and 94, and 8 more places -- 9.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 175 BPM
COPY OF BLACK DRAGON BY THE NEXUS · BAR 82
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 5, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 32 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

302 bars across 39 sections: 135 keep time, 38 are fills, 53 are stops and 60 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 83-106.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK 11
36 groovesAJS37CLS39+31Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is COPY of Black Dragon by The Nexus?

175 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is COPY of Black Dragon by The Nexus hard to play on drums?

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

302 bars, about 7:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 103 exercises over 28 sittings, about 27 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 COPY of Black Dragon by The Nexus?

12 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 5, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 32 more.

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