Martyr Nyebera · Kamikazee

15 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 0:20 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
15
LENGTH
0:20
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15 -- 46.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 180 BPM
MARTYR NYEBERA · BAR 9
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 3, 4, 7 and 8.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

15 bars across 2 sections: 10 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-15.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesAFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Martyr Nyebera?

180 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 Martyr Nyebera hard to play on drums?

46 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

15 bars, about 0:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Martyr Nyebera?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 3, 4, 7 and 8.

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