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Narcisista Por Excelencia · Panda (Pxndx)

EXERCISE 4 OF 50
Groove H -- Part H
49 / 153 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT
PART B
PART E
PART H
CHORUS
PART E
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesLEUSB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 9
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Narcisista Por Excelencia on drums

153 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 3:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, toms through bars 17-23, hi-hat through bars 24-32, ride through bars 33-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-54, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 47-53, 87-93 and 95-100, and 1 more place -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    47               48
    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 |x-------x-x---x-|--x-----x-x-----|
Narcisista Por Excelencia -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 32, 62, 70, 86, 101, 102 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- L, E -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 8-40 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part S -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through Part S and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 100-125 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Narcisista Por Excelencia?

164 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 Narcisista Por Excelencia hard to play on drums?

63 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 10 sittings, about 29 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 Narcisista Por Excelencia?

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 32, 62, 70, 86, 101, 102 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED