Nightfall · Syncatto

113 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 42 and 82, and 4 more places -- 7.4% 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
NIGHTFALL · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 19, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 58 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 36-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 40-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 11 sections: 19 keep time, 64 are fills, 6 are stops and 19 are silent.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART P
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
8 groovesEPFS1A+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nightfall?

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 Nightfall hard to play on drums?

58 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 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 Nightfall?

12 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 19, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 58 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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