Nova Era · Nova Era

202 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Electronic150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
202
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-22, 37 and 39-40, and 19 more places -- 25.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 170 BPM
NOVA ERA · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 8, 16, 23, 24, 38, 41 and 42 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

202 bars across 24 sections: 120 keep time, 48 are fills, 12 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 186-195.

CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART W
PART AG
OUTRO
15 groovesHLAGFA+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nova Era?

170 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 Nova Era hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

202 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 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 Nova Era?

22 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 8, 16, 23, 24, 38, 41 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 202 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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