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Nihilism · Vended

Nihilism · Vended
EXERCISE 28 OF 76
Run N1 · Part N (bars 53-56)
70 / 170 BARS COVERED
0 / 76 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
PART F
PART K
PART N
CHORUS
PART U
PART P
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
19 groovesSFAOUP+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 6
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nihilism on drums

170 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 3:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-12, snare through bars 13-29, ride through bars 30-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48 and snare through bars 49-56, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-26 and 49-52 -- 11.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Nihilism -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 12, 27, 28, 40, 48, 56 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K, S -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part S4 and Part F -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part K -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 45-53 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 51-57 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 53-80 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 63-84 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Nihilism?

210 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 Nihilism hard to play on drums?

56 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 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 Nihilism?

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 12, 27, 28, 40, 48, 56 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED