This Godless Endeavor · Nevermore

300 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 10:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
300
LENGTH
10:01
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-19, 22-35 and 38-41, and 2 more places -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 118 BPM
THIS GODLESS ENDEAVOR · BAR 5
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 20, 21, 36, 37, 42, 44 and 42 more.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

300 bars across 38 sections: 179 keep time, 48 are fills, 27 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 56-66.

CHORUS
PART N
22 groovesCJHSN+17Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is This Godless Endeavor?

118 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 This Godless Endeavor hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

300 bars, about 10:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 102 exercises over 32 sittings, about 26 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 This Godless Endeavor?

19 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 20, 21, 36, 37, 42, 44 and 42 more.

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