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Nail Clipper Vasectomy · Diavolo

EXERCISE 4 OF 88
Groove O -- Chorus
30 / 192 BARS COVERED
0 / 88 PASSED · 27 BARS LIT
PART A
PART E
PART I
CHORUS
PART U
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
9 groovesOEUIB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 1
JOIN · 15
LINK · 9
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nail Clipper Vasectomy on drums

192 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:31 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
74/100

snare through bars 1-37, toms through bars 38-40, hi-hat through bars 41-49, ride through bars 50-56, snare through bars 57-61 and toms through bars 62-64, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 25-27, and 4 more places -- 14.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--|
Nail Clipper Vasectomy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32 and 26 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O, U -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 9-69 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-113 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-117 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Bars 36-58 -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Nail Clipper Vasectomy?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Nail Clipper Vasectomy hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

192 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 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 Nail Clipper Vasectomy?

20 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 192 BARS ANALYSED