Nimrodel / The Procession / The White Rider · Camel

233 bars, 20:13, at 41 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

ProgressiveUnder 90 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
41 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
233
LENGTH
20:13
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 68-72, 76-78 and 80, and 21 more places -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 41 BPM
NIMRODEL / THE PROCESSION / THE WHITE RIDER · BAR 69
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

30 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 28, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 41 more.

LOOP · 41 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 41 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 41 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 41 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

26 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

233 bars across 12 sections: 164 keep time, 47 are fills, 5 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-27.

PART C
PART E
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesYBQCEAX+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nimrodel / The Procession / The White Rider?

41 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Nimrodel / The Procession / The White Rider hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

233 bars, about 20:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 22 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 Nimrodel / The Procession / The White Rider?

30 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 28, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 233 BARS ANALYSED
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