Symbol of Nevermore · Superjoint Ritual

169 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 69-74, 76-78 and 81-82, and 10 more places -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
SYMBOL OF NEVERMORE · BAR 69
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 14, 18, 22 and 37 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

169 bars across 12 sections: 87 keep time, 43 are fills, 24 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-61.

PART B
PART I
PART I
PART Q
CHORUS
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesVBIQT+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Symbol of Nevermore?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Symbol of Nevermore hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 15 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 Symbol of Nevermore?

17 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 14, 18, 22 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED
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