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30/05/26 · Nigel K

30/05/26 · Nigel K
EXERCISE 19 OF 33
4-bar fill at bar 22
41 / 71 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
PART B
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGJQYB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 30/05/26 on drums

71 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 1:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
1:54
DIFFICULTY
55/100

snare through bar 1, toms through bars 2-25, kick and crashes through bars 26-31, snare through bars 32-61 and hi-hat through bars 62-71.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30, 32 and 34, and 5 more places -- 11.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    30
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------------------------------|
SD |------------------------x-----------x-----------|
BD |x--x--x-----x--x--x-----------x--x--------x--x--|
30/05/26 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- N, J -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-32 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-14 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 14-37 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 41-61 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 30/05/26?

150 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 30/05/26 hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 1:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 30/05/26?

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED