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My Nation (AI) · KALMAH

EXERCISE 40 OF 88
Join Part J to Part P (bars 66-68)
128 / 185 BARS COVERED
0 / 88 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, PART P
PART E
PART J
PART L
PART J
PART P
PART U
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
10 groovesXEPGL+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 1
JOIN · 14
LINK · 13
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Nation (AI) on drums

185 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
57/100

toms through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-26, ride through bars 27-37, hi-hat through bars 38-57, ride through bars 58-73 and snare through bars 74-91, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 98-104, 122-125 and 128-129, and 4 more places -- 20.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    99
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
My Nation (AI) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 1, 5, 17, 21, 25, 29 and 35 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 67 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 -- X, E -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-46 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 38-59 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 55-66 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is My Nation (AI)?

140 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 My Nation (AI) hard to play on drums?

57 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 15 sittings, about 29 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 My Nation (AI)?

20 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 1, 5, 17, 21, 25, 29 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED