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EXERCISE 13 OF 61
Run S21 · Part S2 (bars 2-9)
51 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S2
PART S2
PART I
PART L
PART P
CHORUS
PART AD
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART AN
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesXLPIAD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nail Them To The Cross on drums

111 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 4:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
100/100

ride through bars 2-3, hi-hat through bars 4-7, ride through bars 8-9, snare through bars 10-17, ride through bars 18-21 and hi-hat through bars 22-25, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30, 32 and 34, and 6 more places -- 10% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    30
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |-----o--o--o-o--o--o-o--o--o-o--o--o-o--o--o-o--o--o-o--o--o-o--|
SD |-------x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-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--|
Nail Them To The Cross -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 42 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- P -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part S2 and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part I and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part L -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Nail Them To The Cross?

95 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 Them To The Cross hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 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 Them To The Cross?

16 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED