From Nothing · Reflections

128 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 83, 88-89 and 91-93, and 2 more places -- 7.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 155 BPM
FROM NOTHING · BARS 88-89
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 20, 41, 53, 84, 94 and 5 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 16 sections: 73 keep time, 11 are fills, 21 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-34.

PART G
PART I
CHORUS
PART Y
PART AH
PART S9
PART AR
PART S14
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
15 groovesOARIYAH+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is From Nothing?

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

Is From Nothing hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 18 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 From Nothing?

10 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 20, 41, 53, 84, 94 and 5 more.

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