Failed Termination · Nexus

115 bars at 270 BPM -- fast, and 2:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
270 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
2:05
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 70-76 and 78-84 -- 15.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 270 BPM
FAILED TERMINATION · BAR 70
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 32 more.

LOOP · 270 BPM
BARS 1-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 17 TIMES
LOOP · 270 BPM
BARS 22-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 270 BPM
BARS 30-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 270 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 11 sections: 47 keep time, 38 are fills, 1 is a stop and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 71-84.

CHORUS
PART X
PART AA
PART AC
BREAK 3
11 groovesPXAAS11AC+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Failed Termination?

270 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 Failed Termination hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 2:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 15 sittings, about 22 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 Failed Termination?

5 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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