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Kissing My Nightmares · 870621345

EXERCISE 2 OF 83
Groove Z -- Part Z
14 / 139 BARS COVERED
0 / 83 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Z, OUTRO
PART A
PART E
PART J
PART N
PART G
PART N
PART R
PART Z
PART AC
PART AE
CHORUS
PART AN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesAGNRZG+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 1
JOIN · 14
LINK · 14
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kissing My Nightmares on drums

139 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
60/100

ride through bars 1-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-20, toms through bars 21-22, ride through bars 23-29 and toms through bars 30-32, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-39 and 50-56 -- 10.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
Kissing My Nightmares -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 21, 22, 24 and 28 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 -- N -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 5-20 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 19-36 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Kissing My Nightmares?

180 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Kissing My Nightmares hard to play on drums?

60 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?

139 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 18 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 Kissing My Nightmares?

18 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 21, 22, 24 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED