Hyperion · Nightfall Of Sorrows

114 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 80-87, 92 and 97, and 2 more places -- 10.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
HYPERION · BAR 80
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 6, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 24 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 30-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 12 sections: 67 keep time, 30 are fills, 4 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-29.

PART A
PART E
PART AA
CHORUS
PART AM
CHORUS 2
PART AU
CHORUS 3
PART BD
OUTRO
10 groovesAFEBHBDAM+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hyperion?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Hyperion hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 20 sittings, about 23 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 Hyperion?

17 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 6, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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