Exception · Nython

99 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 160 BPM, 2:44 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieElectronic150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 78-84 and 86-92 -- 10.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
EXCEPTION · BAR 79
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10 and 34 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 10-11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 13 sections: 79 keep time, 40 are fills, 1 is a stop and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 48-57.

CHORUS
PART Q
PART AD
PART AQ
OUTRO
BREAK 2
11 groovesFADQS13AQ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Exception?

160 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Exception hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 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 Exception?

13 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10 and 34 more.

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