Somewhere Around Nothing · Apocalyptica

94 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 4:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
89/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3, 22-24 and 35-37, and 9 more places -- 35.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 92 BPM
SOMEWHERE AROUND NOTHING · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 13, 34, 59, 60, 90, 91 and 2 more.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BARS 59-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BARS 90-93 · LANDS ON BAR 94 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 8 sections: 74 keep time, 8 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 68-89.

PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDRUFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Somewhere Around Nothing?

92 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 Somewhere Around Nothing hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 13 sittings, about 23 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 Somewhere Around Nothing?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 13, 34, 59, 60, 90, 91 and 2 more.

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