Nocturnal · Mystic Whore

310 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 6:22 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
310
LENGTH
6:22
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-48 and 113-128 -- 11.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 195 BPM
NOCTURNAL · BARS 33-34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 32, 50, 52, 54, 58 and 22 more.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

310 bars across 22 sections: 206 keep time, 28 are fills, 15 are stops and 29 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 253-283.

PART K
PART M
PART T
PART K
PART M
PART T
BREAK
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesACKMTS19+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nocturnal?

195 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Nocturnal hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

310 bars, about 6:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Nocturnal?

9 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 32, 50, 52, 54, 58 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 310 BARS ANALYSED
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