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EXERCISE 21 OF 42
Groove T -- Part T
46 / 75 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART T, OUTRO
PART S2
CHORUS
PART L
PART T
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGLTAAS2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nancy Boy on drums

75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 89 BPM, 3:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
89 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
85/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-16, ride through bars 17-24, toms through bars 25-32, ride through bars 33-40 and toms through bars 41-44, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 25-27, and 3 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9                                10
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
FT |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-xxx-x-x-x-x-x-xxxx|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-xxx-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x---x-----------x-----x---------|x-----x---------x-----x---x---x-|
HF |----------x---------------x-----|----------x---------------x-----|
Nancy Boy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12 and 33 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- G -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part T -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 31-49 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 45-57 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Nancy Boy?

89 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 Nancy Boy hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 Nancy Boy?

11 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED