Nice To Know You · Incubus

165 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 4:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 52, 60, 92, 100, 112, 116 and 3 more.

LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 112 · LANDS ON BAR 113
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 116 · LANDS ON BAR 117

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

165 bars across 13 sections: 120 keep time, 10 are fills and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 119-132.

PART E
PART J
PART M
CHORUS
PART J
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART AC
OUTRO
BREAK 2
8 groovesQJMACS13+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nice To Know You?

154 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 Nice To Know You hard to play on drums?

59 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 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 Nice To Know You?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 52, 60, 92, 100, 112, 116 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED
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