Echoes of the Nexus · Path to Hypocrisy

257 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 8:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
257
LENGTH
8:13
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37, 39 and 41, and 21 more places -- 10.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
ECHOES OF THE NEXUS · BAR 37
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

24 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 40, 44 and 39 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

21 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

268 bars across 26 sections: 153 keep time, 45 are fills, 8 are stops and 39 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 197-210.

CHORUS
PART S7
PART S18
PART BP
OUTRO
20 groovesQBCS18NBP+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Echoes of the Nexus?

120 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 Echoes of the Nexus hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

257 bars, about 8:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 95 exercises over 32 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Echoes of the Nexus?

24 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 40, 44 and 39 more.

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