Nonagon · Car Bomb

162 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 156 BPM, 3:44 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 64, 67 and 70, and 9 more places -- 7.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 156 BPM
NONAGON · BAR 64
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 10 and 40 more.

LOOP · 156 BPM
BARS 37-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

162 bars across 15 sections: 44 keep time, 46 are fills, 51 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-36.

PART C
PART Q
PART Y
CHORUS
PART S9
PART BF
OUTRO
14 groovesALBFCS9Q+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nonagon?

156 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Nonagon hard to play on drums?

53 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Nonagon?

16 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 10 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED
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