New Dawn · Nigmar

153 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:24 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 33-40 and 49-51, and 8 more places -- 44% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 180 BPM
NEW DAWN · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 14 sections: 115 keep time, 23 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 64-80.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART E
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDEFBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is New Dawn?

180 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 New Dawn hard to play on drums?

52 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
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