Nemesis · Arch Enemy

196 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 4:01 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
196
LENGTH
4:01
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24, 33 and 50-51, and 4 more places -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 195 BPM
NEMESIS · BAR 178
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 16, 25, 34, 42, 58, 60 and 18 more.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

196 bars across 16 sections: 139 keep time, 24 are fills, 6 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 176-191.

PART G
PART I
PART G
PART I
PART Q
CHORUS
PART Q
PART S13
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesJIQGAB+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nemesis?

195 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Nemesis hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

196 bars, about 4:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 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 Nemesis?

15 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 16, 25, 34, 42, 58, 60 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 196 BARS ANALYSED
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