Nightmare · A7x

209 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 6:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
209
LENGTH
6:00
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 67-73, 98-104 and 106-112, and 1 more place -- 15.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
NIGHTMARE · BARS 67-68
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 36, 40, 43, 47, 48, 49 and 41 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 47-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

209 bars across 21 sections: 100 keep time, 47 are fills, 16 are stops and 29 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 99-113.

COUNT-IN
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART AB
PART AF
13 groovesSAFES1AB+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nightmare?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Nightmare hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 89 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

209 bars, about 6:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 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 Nightmare?

21 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 36, 40, 43, 47, 48, 49 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 209 BARS ANALYSED
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