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Symbol of Nevermore · Superjoint Ritual

EXERCISE 1 OF 72
Groove Q -- Part Q
0 / 169 BARS COVERED
0 / 72 PASSED · 27 BARS LIT
PART B
PART I
PART I
PART S5
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Symbol of Nevermore on drums

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.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
65/100

snare through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-10, kick and crashes through bars 11-14, ride through bars 15-44, kick and crashes through bars 45-48 and ride through bars 49-65, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    69
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|
Symbol of Nevermore -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- Q, B -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  5. Through Part I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part B -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 53-77 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 79-105 -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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