Nuclear (Fallout) · Demoncore

68 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
2:16
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-5, 8-9 and 12-15, and 7 more places -- 53.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
NUCLEAR (FALLOUT) · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 1.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 15 sections: 42 keep time, 1 is a fill, 9 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-39.

CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
BREAK 5
PART I
OUTRO
10 groovesDIS8S12S13+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nuclear (Fallout)?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Nuclear (Fallout) hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 2:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Nuclear (Fallout)?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 1.

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