Normal Battle -City- (Nocturne) · Atlus Sound Team

80 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 2:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
2:34
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-10, 13-14 and 17-18, and 9 more places -- 30% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 125 BPM
NORMAL BATTLE -CITY- (NOCTURNE) · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 32, 36, 48, 72 and 76.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars across 6 sections: 68 keep time and 6 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-31.

PART A
CHORUS
PART H
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCHAJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Normal Battle -City- (Nocturne)?

125 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 Normal Battle -City- (Nocturne) hard to play on drums?

59 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 2:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Normal Battle -City- (Nocturne)?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 32, 36, 48, 72 and 76.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED
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