Where Owls Know My Name · Rivers Of Nihil

225 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
225
LENGTH
5:57
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 49-51, 53-54 and 57-59, and 9 more places -- 14.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
WHERE OWLS KNOW MY NAME · BARS 49-50
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

25 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 56 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 2-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

21 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

225 bars across 16 sections: 91 keep time, 62 are fills, 39 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-21.

PART H
CHORUS
PART W
CHORUS 2
PART AP
PART AU
CHORUS 3
PART AZ
OUTRO
BREAK 3
13 groovesUAUHABAZ+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Where Owls Know My Name?

160 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 Where Owls Know My Name hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

225 bars, about 5:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 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 Where Owls Know My Name?

25 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 56 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 225 BARS ANALYSED
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