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Nothing Remains · Chimaira

EXERCISE 1 OF 100
Groove I -- Chorus
0 / 264 BARS COVERED
0 / 100 PASSED · 41 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART V
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
PART AW
18 groovesIKPAV+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 4
JOIN · 21
LINK · 10
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nothing Remains on drums

264 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 5:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
264
LENGTH
5:23
DIFFICULTY
68/100

toms through bars 1-20, hi-hat through bars 21-24, silence through bars 25-30, hi-hat through bars 31-34, snare through bars 35-38 and ride through bars 39-46, and 22 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-45, 73-79 and 157-164, and 4 more places -- 16% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Nothing Remains -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 46, 50, 54, 58, 80, 84 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 81 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-30 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Bars 32-38 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Nothing Remains?

195 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 Remains hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

264 bars, about 5:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 81 exercises over 23 sittings, about 25 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 Remains?

18 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 46, 50, 54, 58, 80, 84 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 264 BARS ANALYSED