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Exception · Nython

EXERCISE 28 OF 64
Join Part Q to Part AD (bars 45-47)
87 / 152 BARS COVERED
0 / 64 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q, PART AD
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Exception on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
69/100

snare through bars 1-9, toms through bars 10-11, snare through bars 12-18, toms through bars 19-26, hi-hat through bars 27-54 and snare through bars 55-57, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |-g-g--x-----|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxx|
Exception -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- AQ -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AD, F -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part AD -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED