Veiled Nihilism · Wajha

309 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 6:34 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
309
LENGTH
6:34
DIFFICULTY
96/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 20, and 19 more places -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 185 BPM
VEILED NIHILISM · BAR 10
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 1, 5, 7, 8, 9, 13 and 32 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 7-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

314 bars across 33 sections: 189 keep time, 38 are fills, 15 are stops and 47 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 123-139.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART W
PART AA
PART AE
BREAK 6
PART AV
25 groovesGS21WBAA+20Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Veiled Nihilism?

185 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Veiled Nihilism hard to play on drums?

96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 83 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

309 bars, about 6:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 93 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 Veiled Nihilism?

20 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 1, 5, 7, 8, 9, 13 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 309 BARS ANALYSED
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