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I Am Nietzche · Orchid

EXERCISE 11 OF 41
6-bar fill at bar 23
22 / 69 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
COUNT-IN
PART F
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesJS1HACP+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Am Nietzche on drums

69 bars, 3:57, at 59 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
59 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
79/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-22, snare through bars 23-24, toms through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-38 and snare through bars 39-40, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 22-23 and 37-39 -- 8.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    22                                                               23
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |----------------------------------------------------------------|x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
HH |o---------------o---------------o---------------o----o----------|----------------------------------------------------------------|
SD |x---------------x---------------x---------------x----x----------|x----x--x--x----x----x--g--x----x----x--x--x----x----x-----x----|
BD |-----x-----x---------x-----x---------x-----x---------x-----x----|-----x-----x---------x-----x---------x-----x--------------------|
I Am Nietzche -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- J -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through the Break and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 29-41 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is I Am Nietzche?

59 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is I Am Nietzche hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 I Am Nietzche?

6 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED