Official OST · Duke Nukem Forever

147 bars at 166 BPM -- fast, and 3:33 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
166 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-18 and 21-26, and 17 more places -- 58.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 166 BPM
OFFICIAL OST · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 19 and 48 more.

LOOP · 166 BPM
BARS 9-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 166 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 166 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 166 BPM
BARS 27-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 12 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

147 bars across 4 sections: 69 keep time, 54 are fills, 22 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

OUTRO 2
4 groovesIAS3S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Official OST?

166 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 Official OST hard to play on drums?

53 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Official OST?

14 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 19 and 48 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED
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