Nosferatu · Kamijo

240 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 5:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
240
LENGTH
5:20
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-19 and 33-39, and 11 more places -- 32.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 180 BPM
NOSFERATU · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 75 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 69 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 1-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 20-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

240 bars across 19 sections: 130 keep time, 75 are fills, 8 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-15.

CHORUS
PART R
PART AG
CHORUS 4
PART O
CHORUS 5
PART AN
9 groovesIOAGANR+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nosferatu?

180 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Nosferatu hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

240 bars, about 5:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 17 sittings, about 29 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 Nosferatu?

20 fills to learn, played 75 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 69 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 240 BARS ANALYSED
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