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Nemesis · Emmure

EXERCISE 10 OF 31
Groove A
55 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK, PART S2
BREAK
PART S2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART P
CHORUS 3
PART P
PART S
OUTRO
7 groovesGPSS2K+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nemesis on drums

90 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 2:53 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
68/100

toms through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-20, snare through bars 21-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40 and snare through bars 41-48, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-10, 13-14 and 21, and 9 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9                                                10
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--------------x-----------------|------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

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- G -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-9 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 3-17 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 15-49 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part P and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Nemesis?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Nemesis hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 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 Nemesis?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED