Naysayer · Architects

157 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:18 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 33-35, and 7 more places -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
NAYSAYER · BARS 25-26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 39 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

157 bars across 19 sections: 71 keep time, 45 are fills, 22 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-39.

PART G
CHORUS
PART R
PART W
PART AD
PART AG
PART AF
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
16 groovesOANADAGW+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Naysayer?

190 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 Naysayer 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Naysayer?

19 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED
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