Flight Of The Nazgul · Summoning

280 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 9:21 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
280
LENGTH
9:21
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 44-46, 48-50 and 60-62, and 13 more places -- 23.5% 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
FLIGHT OF THE NAZGUL · BAR 46
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 11, 15, 31 and 30 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 1-3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

280 bars across 12 sections: 154 keep time, 36 are fills, 2 are stops and 76 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-26.

PART D
PART I
BREAK
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesNS8IDQ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Flight Of The Nazgul?

120 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 Flight Of The Nazgul hard to play on drums?

57 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

280 bars, about 9:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Flight Of The Nazgul?

10 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 11, 15, 31 and 30 more.

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