I, Voyager · Nevermore

226 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 5:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
226
LENGTH
5:48
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-20, 23-24 and 27-28, and 13 more places -- 14.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 156 BPM
I, VOYAGER · BARS 19-20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, 37 and 41 more.

LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

226 bars across 7 sections: 160 keep time, 47 are fills and 12 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-36.

PART B
CHORUS
PART V
PART AH
OUTRO
7 groovesPIBAHV+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I, Voyager?

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

Is I, Voyager hard to play on drums?

64 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

226 bars, about 5:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 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 I, Voyager?

19 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, 37 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 226 BARS ANALYSED
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