Narda | Tower Sessions · Kamikazee

149 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 4:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 39, and 8 more places -- 40.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 123 BPM
NARDA | TOWER SESSIONS · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 16, 40, 47, 48, 72, 79 and 11 more.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BARS 47-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 100 · LANDS ON BAR 101
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 113 · LANDS ON BAR 114

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 11 sections: 104 keep time, 17 are fills, 2 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 131-144.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART S7
PART E
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
6 groovesBEMS7S1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Narda | Tower Sessions?

123 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 Narda | Tower Sessions hard to play on drums?

48 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Narda | Tower Sessions?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 16, 40, 47, 48, 72, 79 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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