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Making Plans For Nigel · XTC

EXERCISE 1 OF 11
Groove C -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Making Plans For Nigel on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
55/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-65, toms through bars 66-78 and hi-hat through bars 79-159.

The beat

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.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--o-----------o-|
SD |--------x-------|
FT |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x---x-----------|
HF |x---x-----------|
Making Plans For Nigel -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- C, E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED