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Nevermore · Symphony X

EXERCISE 7 OF 87
Groove A -- Part A
94 / 223 BARS COVERED
0 / 87 PASSED · 28 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, OUTRO 2
PART A
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 11
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nevermore on drums

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.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
223
LENGTH
5:30
DIFFICULTY
66/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, snare through bars 25-48, ride through bars 49-65, hi-hat through bars 66-73, snare through bars 74-99 and hi-hat through bars 100-114, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x---x---x---|
SD |x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x-xxxx|
Nevermore -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A and Part F -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-33 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part F -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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