Nemo · Nightwish

141 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 25-32 and 41-47, and 5 more places -- 45.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 125 BPM
NEMO · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 48, 60, 76 and 80.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 18 sections: 94 keep time, 4 are fills, 13 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 101-116.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S10
PART L
PART Q
CHORUS 3
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesBCLQU+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nemo?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Nemo hard to play on drums?

48 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 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 Nemo?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 48, 60, 76 and 80.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED
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