Nothing is Ever Black and White · Rose Avenue

277 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 5:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
277
LENGTH
5:50
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 14 and 16-20, and 15 more places -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
NOTHING IS EVER BLACK AND WHITE · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 29, 36 and 33 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 2-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 36-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

277 bars across 20 sections: 176 keep time, 39 are fills, 38 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-28.

CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART O
PART AF
PART L
PART AJ
OUTRO
14 groovesFLOAJAF+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nothing is Ever Black and White?

190 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 Nothing is Ever Black and White hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

277 bars, about 5:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 24 sittings, about 24 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 Nothing is Ever Black and White?

15 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 29, 36 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 277 BARS ANALYSED
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