Handful Of Nothing · Pain Of Salvation

217 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ProgressiveMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
217
LENGTH
5:18
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 58, 66-73 and 138, and 1 more place -- 9.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
HANDFUL OF NOTHING · BARS 66-67
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 107 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 101 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

217 bars across 12 sections: 40 keep time, 107 are fills, 44 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 202-209.

PART L
PART M
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
10 groovesQLMAGAH+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Handful Of Nothing?

150 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 Handful Of Nothing hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

217 bars, about 5:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Handful Of Nothing?

9 fills to learn, played 107 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 101 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 217 BARS ANALYSED
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