Nihilist · Architects

73 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
2:26
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26, 28 and 30, and 3 more places -- 13.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
NIHILIST · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 15 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 2-7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 12 sections: 31 keep time, 21 are fills, 6 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 52-55.

PART S2
PART G
PART J
CHORUS
PART P
PART S9
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesMGVJZ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nihilist?

120 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 Nihilist hard to play on drums?

55 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?

73 bars, about 2:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Nihilist?

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
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