Null Signal Demo · Niko

109 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
2:25
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 22-23 and 26-28, and 3 more places -- 11.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
NULL SIGNAL DEMO · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 32 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 13-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 38-43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 50-53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 10 sections: 46 keep time, 38 are fills, 12 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-32.

PART A
CHORUS
PART S3
PART Q
PART U
PART AB
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCEABAU+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Null Signal Demo?

180 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 Null Signal Demo hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 2:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Null Signal Demo?

14 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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