nerdowell the 81st · hippocratic oath

178 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 5:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-19, 21-27 and 29-32, and 7 more places -- 21.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
NERDOWELL THE 81ST · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 9, 20, 28, 33, 41 and 19 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 65-66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

179 bars across 10 sections: 119 keep time, 25 are fills, 4 are stops and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 69-95.

PART C
CHORUS
PART K
PART O
PART C
BREAK 2
OUTRO
8 groovesEKCS9O+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is nerdowell the 81st?

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 nerdowell the 81st hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in nerdowell the 81st?

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 9, 20, 28, 33, 41 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED
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