The Hole OF Nightmares · Composers of MSB

57 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 1:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
57
LENGTH
1:55
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-49 -- 25.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
THE HOLE OF NIGHTMARES · BAR 42
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 17, 30, 31, 32 and 33.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 30-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

57 bars across 11 sections: 17 keep time, 5 are fills, 7 are stops and 26 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-49.

COUNT-IN
PART S5
BREAK 4
PART S7
BREAK 6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesS1IJS5S9+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Hole OF Nightmares?

120 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 The Hole OF Nightmares hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 92 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

57 bars, about 1:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 7 sittings, about 22 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 The Hole OF Nightmares?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 17, 30, 31, 32 and 33.

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