Nailed EP · Deviated Instinct

546 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 20:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
546
LENGTH
20:47
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 54, 64 and 66, and 30 more places -- 13.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 105 BPM
NAILED EP · BAR 315
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

24 fills to learn, played 80 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 14, 19 and 74 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

20 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

546 bars across 33 sections: 367 keep time, 85 are fills, 42 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 316-353.

CHORUS
PART AO
PART R
PART BD
PART CD
24 groovesACCDRBDD+19Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nailed EP?

105 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 Nailed EP hard to play on drums?

53 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

546 bars, about 20:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 127 exercises over 38 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 Nailed EP?

24 fills to learn, played 80 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 14, 19 and 74 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 546 BARS ANALYSED
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