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NAMELESS · CAUTION

EXERCISE 35 OF 75
9-bar fill at bar 50
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0 / 75 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
PART S2
PART I
PART K
CHORUS
PART I
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesPKIAS2+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play NAMELESS on drums

134 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
62/100

toms through bars 1-9, silence through bars 10-16, hi-hat through bars 17-50, ride through bars 51-60, hi-hat through bars 61-68 and ride through bars 69-76, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 33-35, and 5 more places -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25               26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |xxx---xxx-x---x-|--x---x---xx--x-|
NAMELESS -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 15, 16 and 42 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- K -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part S2 -- 8 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  5. Bars 7-17 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part K -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and the Break -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is NAMELESS?

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

Is NAMELESS hard to play on drums?

62 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 NAMELESS?

20 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 15, 16 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED