Nosferatu Man · Slint

104 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 110 BPM, 5:14 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieProgressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
5:14
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-23, 33-38 and 40, and 2 more places -- 41.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
NOSFERATU MAN · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 24, 25, 26, 27, 49, 50 and 8 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 52-54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 5 sections: 60 keep time, 14 are fills, 1 is a stop and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-23.

CHORUS
PART I
OUTRO
BREAK
5 groovesCS5YIEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nosferatu Man?

110 BPM, in 5/4, 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 Nosferatu Man hard to play on drums?

50 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 5:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Nosferatu Man?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 24, 25, 26, 27, 49, 50 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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