Kafir! · Nile

45 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 1:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
45
LENGTH
1:12
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 24-32 -- 20.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
KAFIR! · BARS 24-25
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 14, 15, 35, 36, 37, 38 and 2 more.

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

45 bars across 9 sections: 28 keep time, 8 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-33.

PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesFMUDA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kafir!?

140 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 Kafir! hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 84 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

45 bars, about 1:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Kafir!?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 14, 15, 35, 36, 37, 38 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 45 BARS ANALYSED
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