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Diver · Nico Touches The Walls

Diver · Nico Touches The Walls
EXERCISE 1 OF 62
Groove O -- Part O
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0 / 62 PASSED · 26 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O, OUTRO
PART C
CHORUS
PART O
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesKOCWQ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Diver on drums

147 bars of 4/4 at 149 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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
149 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
58/100

toms through bars 2-8, hi-hat through bars 9-23, toms through bars 24-25, hi-hat through bars 26-57, toms through bars 58-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-79, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-48, 50-55 and 123-129, and 1 more place -- 18.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 9, 23, 24, 25, 29, 33 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- O, K -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 2-42 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 38-140 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Diver?

149 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 Diver 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Diver?

14 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 9, 23, 24, 25, 29, 33 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED