Making Plans For Nigel · XTC

159 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieElectronic150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-7, 10-11 and 14-15, and 24 more places -- 47.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 150 BPM
MAKING PLANS FOR NIGEL · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

159 bars across 4 sections: 154 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-64.

CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Making Plans For Nigel?

150 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 Making Plans For Nigel hard to play on drums?

55 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.

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