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Naive · The Kooks

Naive · The Kooks
EXERCISE 1 OF 43
Groove N -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART C
PART I
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesNAICW+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Naive on drums

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 3:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-17, silence through bars 18-23, hi-hat through bars 24-38, ride through bars 39-46 and kick and crashes through bars 47-50, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-41, 43-45 and 63-65, and 1 more place -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    39
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--g-x--x---|
BD |x--x-------x---x|
Naive -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 16, 24, 25, 26, 34, 38 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- N -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part S3 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 15-27 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 24-42 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Bars 46-60 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Naive?

104 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 Naive hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Naive?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 16, 24, 25, 26, 34, 38 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED