Nepali Ho · 1974ad

184 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 5:27 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, floor tom and kick.

Country / FolkRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
5:27
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 77% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 4-7 and 9, and 20 more places -- 76.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 135 BPM
NEPALI HO · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 2, 8, 16, 32, 44, 99 and 3 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 99 · LANDS ON BAR 100

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

184 bars across 6 sections: 146 keep time, 10 are fills and 23 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 101-132.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAKMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nepali Ho?

135 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 Nepali Ho hard to play on drums?

49 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 5:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Nepali Ho?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 2, 8, 16, 32, 44, 99 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED
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