Nil By Mouth · Haken

233 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 6:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Progressive120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
233
LENGTH
6:37
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33, 38-39 and 201, and 7 more places -- 6.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
NIL BY MOUTH · BAR 201
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 125 times: bars 8, 11, 12, 20, 23, 24 and 119 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 23-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 10 TIMES

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

233 bars across 14 sections: 79 keep time, 125 are fills, 1 is a stop and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 171-180.

PART C
CHORUS
PART AL
PART AZ
PART CX
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesLAZCALCX+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nil By Mouth?

140 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 Nil By Mouth hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

233 bars, about 6:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 25 sittings, about 26 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 Nil By Mouth?

23 fills to learn, played 125 times: bars 8, 11, 12, 20, 23, 24 and 119 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 233 BARS ANALYSED
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