Narcosynthesis · Nevermore

185 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 5:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
5:27
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 21-23, and 10 more places -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
NARCOSYNTHESIS · BARS 13-14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 3, 12, 56, 72, 76, 80 and 23 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

185 bars across 17 sections: 112 keep time, 29 are fills, 27 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-31.

PART A
VERSE
VERSE 2
CHORUS
VERSE 3
CHORUS 2
PART T
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
9 groovesKCAFAB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Narcosynthesis?

135 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 Narcosynthesis hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 5:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 14 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 Narcosynthesis?

10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 3, 12, 56, 72, 76, 80 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED
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