Nuclear Burn · Brand X

244 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 6:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / BluesPop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
244
LENGTH
6:27
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 60, 87 and 89, and 7 more places -- 9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 155 BPM
NUCLEAR BURN · BAR 96
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 23, 40, 42, 43, 44 and 25 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 42-45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

244 bars across 29 sections: 159 keep time, 32 are fills, 6 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 103-117.

PART H
PART N
PART AA
CHORUS 2
PART BH
27 groovesWNAABHH+22Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nuclear Burn?

155 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Nuclear Burn hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

244 bars, about 6:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 106 exercises over 40 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Nuclear Burn?

13 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 23, 40, 42, 43, 44 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 244 BARS ANALYSED
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