Nerv · Thornhill

124 bars at 157 BPM -- fast, and 3:09 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
157 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 34-36, 38-44 and 47-49, and 3 more places -- 21.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 157 BPM
NERV · BARS 34-35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 25, 29, 32, 33, 45, 46 and 18 more.

LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 157 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 157 BPM
BARS 45-46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 12 sections: 74 keep time, 24 are fills, 13 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-24.

PART B
CHORUS
PART K
PART Q
PART V
PART K
PART B
OUTRO
9 groovesDKFBV+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nerv?

157 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 Nerv hard to play on drums?

47 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 Nerv?

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 25, 29, 32, 33, 45, 46 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
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