Nowa Aleksandria · Siekiera

129 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:12 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PunkRock150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-15, 34-47 and 74-87, and 1 more place -- 49.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 160 BPM
NOWA ALEKSANDRIA · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 16, 48, 88 and 128.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 7 sections: 115 keep time, 4 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-72.

VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE 2
CHORUS 2
VERSE 3
OUTRO
VERSE 4
2 groovesBEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nowa Aleksandria?

160 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 Nowa Aleksandria hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the speed of the hand keeping time. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Nowa Aleksandria?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 16, 48, 88 and 128.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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