Primal · Nik Nocturnal

139 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:05 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 65% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-9, 27-33 and 35-41, and 5 more places -- 65.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 180 BPM
PRIMAL · BARS 3-4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 10, 18, 26, 34, 42, 50 and 4 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 9 sections: 106 keep time, 11 are fills, 4 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 111-129.

INTRO
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBES7IS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Primal?

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 Primal hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 3 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Primal?

2 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 10, 18, 26, 34, 42, 50 and 4 more.

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