When Nightmares Tread Dawn · Akkirus Risen

171 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 4:25 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
4:25
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2, 4-6 and 8-10, and 30 more places -- 57.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 175 BPM
WHEN NIGHTMARES TREAD DAWN · BARS 4-5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 25.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

172 bars across 14 sections: 123 keep time, 1 is a fill, 2 are stops and 30 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 77-112.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
BREAK 3
8 groovesBS14OCE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is When Nightmares Tread Dawn?

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

Is When Nightmares Tread Dawn hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 4:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in When Nightmares Tread Dawn?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 25.

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