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In Excelsis, Nova Era · Angra

EXERCISE 12 OF 87
Fill at bar 206
117 / 232 BARS COVERED
0 / 87 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 4
PART A
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART Z
PART AI
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
16 groovesJANAIH+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 5
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play In Excelsis, Nova Era on drums

232 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 7:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
232
LENGTH
7:38
DIFFICULTY
74/100

silence through bars 1-11, kick and crashes through bars 12-27, silence through bars 28-32, kick and crashes through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-52 and toms through bars 53-54, and 24 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 47-52, 67 and 69-70, and 19 more places -- 23.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    47
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
In Excelsis, Nova Era -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 38, 46, 53, 54, 68, 71 and 42 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AI -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 32-72 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 39-207 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 43-56 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 53-69 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 76-107 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is In Excelsis, Nova Era?

120 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 In Excelsis, Nova Era hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

232 bars, about 7:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 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 In Excelsis, Nova Era?

22 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 38, 46, 53, 54, 68, 71 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 232 BARS ANALYSED