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Nemesis · Arch Enemy

EXERCISE 8 OF 77
Groove A -- Part A
85 / 196 BARS COVERED
0 / 77 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 9
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nemesis on drums

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.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
196
LENGTH
4:01
DIFFICULTY
77/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-23, snare through bars 24-25, hi-hat through bars 26-34 and snare through bars 35-42, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    178
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |x---------------x---------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Nemesis -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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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