Naomi · Neutral Milk Hotel

106 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 4:49 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 33-35, and 13 more places -- 60.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 88 BPM
NAOMI · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 24 and 86.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 2 sections: 101 keep time, 2 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-84.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesDBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Naomi?

88 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 Naomi hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Naomi?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 24 and 86.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
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