Nemesis · Holochaust

16 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 0:21 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
16
LENGTH
0:21
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7 -- 43.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 180 BPM
NEMESIS · BAR 1
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 8, 12, 15 and 16.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 15-16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

16 bars across 2 sections: 11 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nemesis?

180 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 Nemesis hard to play on drums?

56 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

16 bars, about 0:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 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 Nemesis?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 8, 12, 15 and 16.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 16 BARS ANALYSED
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