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Narc · Interpol

EXERCISE 1 OF 33
Groove E -- Chorus
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0 / 33 PASSED · 31 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEBRNK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Narc on drums

117 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-117.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-44 and 67-81 -- 27.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Narc -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 45, 46, 58, 104 and 116.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- E, D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 65-86 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Bars 97-112 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Narc?

123 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 Narc hard to play on drums?

61 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Narc?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 45, 46, 58, 104 and 116.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED