Nevermore · Symphony X

223 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
223
LENGTH
5:30
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 27 and 29, and 45 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 · 150 BPM
NEVERMORE · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 18, 20 and 29 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

223 bars across 13 sections: 152 keep time, 36 are fills and 22 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 101-114.

PART A
CHORUS
PART M
PART F
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART W
PART AD
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJAWFAD+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nevermore?

150 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 Nevermore hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

223 bars, about 5:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 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 Nevermore?

23 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 18, 20 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 223 BARS ANALYSED
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