I Am Nietzche · Orchid

69 bars, 3:57, at 59 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndiePunkUnder 90 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
59 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 22-23 and 37-39 -- 8.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 59 BPM
I AM NIETZCHE · BARS 22-23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 16 more.

LOOP · 59 BPM
BARS 23-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 59 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 59 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

69 bars across 10 sections: 24 keep time, 22 are fills and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-34.

COUNT-IN
PART F
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesJS1HACP+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Am Nietzche?

59 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is I Am Nietzche hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 I Am Nietzche?

6 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED
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