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EXERCISE 31 OF 59
2-bar fill at bar 25
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0 / 59 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART AC
PART X
PART AW
11 groovesEAWNACR+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play NAIL MARY on drums

84 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
78/100

silence through bars 1-3, ride through bars 4-7, toms through bars 8-26, snare through bars 27-32, silence through bars 33-35 and snare through bars 36-41, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7, 24-25 and 60-61, and 1 more place -- 9.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    24                                                               25
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|-----------------------------------x-x--x-------x---------------|
T2 |----------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------x--x-x--|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x----------x-x-----x-x----------|
NAIL MARY -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AW -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 13-20 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part R and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Bars 25-51 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is NAIL MARY?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 NAIL MARY hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 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 MARY?

16 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED