Melodic Metalcore nik nocturnal · Nik Nocturnal

207 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:36 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
207
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 52, 58 and 91, and 17 more places -- 11% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
MELODIC METALCORE NIK NOCTURNAL · BAR 160
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 21, 24, 27, 30, 33, 36 and 43 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

207 bars across 17 sections: 115 keep time, 49 are fills and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 159-175.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART BA
PART W
OUTRO 2
12 groovesCWSIS1+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Melodic Metalcore nik nocturnal?

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 Melodic Metalcore nik nocturnal hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

207 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 24 sittings, about 26 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 Melodic Metalcore nik nocturnal?

22 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 21, 24, 27, 30, 33, 36 and 43 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 207 BARS ANALYSED
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