Nuclear Fusion · King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

87 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 4:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 22-32 and 42-56 -- 34.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 85 BPM
NUCLEAR FUSION · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 40, 64, 78 and 81.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 9 sections: 64 keep time, 4 are fills, 5 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-59.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDFBHS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nuclear Fusion?

85 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 Fusion hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Fusion?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 40, 64, 78 and 81.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED
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