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Melodic Metalcore nik nocturnal · Nik Nocturnal

EXERCISE 1 OF 97
Groove S -- Outro 2
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART S
PART W
PART S
PART BA
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesCWSIS1+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Melodic Metalcore nik nocturnal on drums

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.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
207
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-21, hi-hat through bars 22-57, snare through bars 58-63, hi-hat through bars 64-68, snare through bars 69-70 and hi-hat through bars 71-75, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    160
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Melodic Metalcore nik nocturnal -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 74 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- S, I -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part I -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part I -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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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