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Area 51 · Nolan Edwards

Area 51 · Nolan Edwards
EXERCISE 8 OF 14
Run A2 · Chorus 2 (bars 13-24)
61 / 69 BARS COVERED
0 / 14 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART B
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesABDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Area 51 on drums

69 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 2:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
2:46
DIFFICULTY
75/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8, 13-24 and 29-40, and 2 more places -- 71% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    3
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----x--x-----x--------|
Area 51 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-56 -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Area 51?

100 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 Area 51 hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 2:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED