My Nation (AI) · KALMAH

185 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:17 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
185
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 98-104, 122-125 and 128-129, and 4 more places -- 20.8% 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
MY NATION (AI) · BAR 99
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 1, 5, 17, 21, 25, 29 and 35 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

185 bars across 19 sections: 106 keep time, 41 are fills, 20 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-16.

PART E
PART J
PART L
PART P
PART U
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
10 groovesXEPGL+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Nation (AI)?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 My Nation (AI) hard to play on drums?

57 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 15 sittings, about 29 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 My Nation (AI)?

20 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 1, 5, 17, 21, 25, 29 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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