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Built By Nations · Greta Van Fleet

EXERCISE 34 OF 49
Groove AE -- Part AE
62 / 74 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AE
PART G
PART I
CHORUS
PART R
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART AE
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesNIRAEGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Built By Nations on drums

74 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
58/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-4, ride through bars 5-7, hi-hat through bars 8-16, ride through bars 17-24 and hi-hat through bars 25-40, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-11, 13-14 and 33, and 1 more place -- 10.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----x-----------|----------------|
HH |x-x---x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |xxx-----x--x---x|x--x--x---x--x--|
Built By Nations -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 39 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- I, N -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-17 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-67 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 25-73 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part AE -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Built By Nations?

80 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 Built By Nations 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Built By Nations?

12 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED