nigganigga · nigga

42 bars at 207 BPM -- fast, and 0:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
207 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
42
LENGTH
0:49
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 15-17 and 19-21, and 1 more place -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 207 BPM
NIGGANIGGA · BAR 11
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 14, 18, 22 and 1 more.

LOOP · 207 BPM
BARS 8-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 207 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 207 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 207 BPM
BAR 42
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

42 bars across 3 sections: 32 keep time and 7 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-41.

PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFJAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is nigganigga?

207 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 nigganigga hard to play on drums?

61 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

42 bars, about 0:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 7 sittings, about 22 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 nigganigga?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 14, 18, 22 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 42 BARS ANALYSED
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