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4D · Northlane

EXERCISE 19 OF 67
Groove Q
90 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 67 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, PART S9, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART AB
PART S9
PART AK
OUTRO 2
11 groovesAABIAKAO+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 4D on drums

145 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 3:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bars 1-32, ride through bars 33-36, hi-hat through bars 37-40, ride through bars 41-44, hi-hat through bars 45-64 and silence through bars 65-71, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 11 more places -- 31.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x----g--x---|
BD |x-x-------x-----|
4D -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 45 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- A -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AB, I -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 31-37 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 33-114 -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 45-73 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part V and Part AB -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 81-105 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 4D?

146 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 4D hard to play on drums?

62 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 13 sittings, about 30 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 4D?

14 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED