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Nihilist · Architects

EXERCISE 29 OF 47
Fill at bar 41
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0 / 47 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART G
PART S2
PART G
PART J
CHORUS
PART P
PART G
PART S9
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesMGVJZ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nihilist on drums

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

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
2:26
DIFFICULTY
55/100

snare through bars 2-15, hi-hat through bars 16-17, snare through bars 18-33, hi-hat through bars 34-37, snare through bars 38-42 and silence through bars 43-48, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxx-xxxxx|
Nihilist -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- M -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 2-21 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-34 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 32-39 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 40-57 -- 7 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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