Eternal Nothingness (Album Version) · Blade and Bath

116 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 5:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
5:48
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-20, 31-32 and 35-36, and 4 more places -- 51.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 80 BPM
ETERNAL NOTHINGNESS (ALBUM VERSION) · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 28, 29, 30, 33, 34 and 6 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 28-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 33-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 8 sections: 83 keep time, 12 are fills, 6 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-63.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART S6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCNDKS6+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Eternal Nothingness (Album Version)?

80 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 Eternal Nothingness (Album Version) hard to play on drums?

45 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 5:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Eternal Nothingness (Album Version)?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 28, 29, 30, 33, 34 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
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