Serpents of the Nile · Scarab

211 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 4:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
211
LENGTH
4:47
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 10 and 14, and 14 more places -- 18.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 175 BPM
SERPENTS OF THE NILE · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 15 and 68 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

211 bars across 15 sections: 100 keep time, 74 are fills and 19 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-40.

CHORUS
PART O
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART AH
PART O
PART N
6 groovesENOAHAE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Serpents of the Nile?

175 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 Serpents of the Nile hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

211 bars, about 4:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Serpents of the Nile?

20 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 15 and 68 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 211 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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