The Tower of Cosmic Nihility may 2026 · Iotunn

168 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 7:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
7:20
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-8, 10-11 and 13, and 18 more places -- 28.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 90 BPM
THE TOWER OF COSMIC NIHILITY MAY 2026 · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

26 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 6, 20, 28, 35, 36, 43 and 34 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

22 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

168 bars across 15 sections: 104 keep time, 40 are fills, 3 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-19.

CHORUS
PART H
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART W
PART AD
CHORUS 4
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCMWHAD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Tower of Cosmic Nihility may 2026?

90 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 Tower of Cosmic Nihility may 2026 hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 7:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 20 sittings, about 27 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 The Tower of Cosmic Nihility may 2026?

26 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 6, 20, 28, 35, 36, 43 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED
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