Kafir! · Nile, Karl Sanders, Kollias, Karl Sanders

227 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 6:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
227
LENGTH
6:03
DIFFICULTY
94/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 188-203 and 212-226 -- 13.7% 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! · BAR 189
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

35 fills to learn, played 91 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10 and 85 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

32 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

227 bars across 17 sections: 94 keep time, 92 are fills, 23 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 189-203.

CHORUS
PART Y
PART AM
CHORUS 2
PART AG
CHORUS 3
PART CM
OUTRO 2
9 groovesKYAGCMAI+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?

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

227 bars, about 6:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 79 exercises over 28 sittings, about 25 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 Kafir!?

35 fills to learn, played 91 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10 and 85 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 227 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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