NWO · I Prevail

63 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 2:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6-8, and 7 more places -- 22.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 94 BPM
NWO · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 14, 15, 16, 17, 23 and 13 more.

LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 94 BPM
BARS 14-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

63 bars across 9 sections: 29 keep time, 19 are fills, 1 is a stop and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-13.

CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART J
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBJS8OS7+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is NWO?

94 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 NWO hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

63 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 NWO?

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 14, 15, 16, 17, 23 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 63 BARS ANALYSED
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