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Nachash · Karnivool

EXERCISE 1 OF 48
Groove D -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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PART A
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART P
PART L
PART V
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDLPAI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 9
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nachash on drums

146 bars of 4/4 at 119 BPM, about 4:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
4:40
DIFFICULTY
76/100

hi-hat through bars 1-43, ride through bars 44-46, hi-hat through bars 47-66, toms through bars 67-75, silence through bars 76-82 and hi-hat through bars 83-127, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-11, 13-14 and 25-31, and 3 more places -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9              10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------------|----------------|
HH |-ggg-xgggggg-x|gggg-xggggg-x---|
SD |----x-------x-|----x------x-gxx|
BD |x--x-x--x--x--|x--x--x---x-----|
Nachash -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 8, 12, 15, 16, 24, 32 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 5-18 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 13-28 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 25-51 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Nachash?

119 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 Nachash hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 4:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.

How many fills are in Nachash?

9 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 8, 12, 15, 16, 24, 32 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED