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Nada · Zoé

EXERCISE 11 OF 33
Join Part C to Break (bars 43-45)
155 / 185 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, BREAK
PART B
PART C
BREAK
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGCBEL+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nada on drums

185 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 5:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
5:31
DIFFICULTY
58/100

snare through bars 3-26, hi-hat through bars 27-42, toms through bars 43-44, silence through bars 45-46, toms through bars 47-48 and silence through bars 49-50, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57-60, 62 and 89-92, and 9 more places -- 46.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    58
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Nada -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 88, 99, 100 and 168.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- G, C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 43-61 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 60-96 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 89-112 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Nada?

134 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 Nada hard to play on drums?

58 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 5:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Nada?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 88, 99, 100 and 168.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED