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Narcosynthesis · Nevermore

EXERCISE 12 OF 59
Part A into Verse with the record (bars 9-16)
93 / 185 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, VERSE
PART A
VERSE
VERSE 2
CHORUS
VERSE 3
CHORUS 2
PART T
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
9 groovesKCAFAB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Narcosynthesis on drums

185 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 5:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
5:27
DIFFICULTY
75/100

ride through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-32, snare through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-56, snare through bars 57-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-68, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 21-23, and 10 more places -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13               14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |-xxx-xxxxxxx-xxx|xxxx-xxxxxxx-xxx|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |xxxx--xxxx--xxxx|--xxxx--xxxxxxxx|
Narcosynthesis -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 3, 12, 56, 72, 76, 80 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 9-57 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 53-65 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Narcosynthesis?

135 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 Narcosynthesis hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 5:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Narcosynthesis?

10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 3, 12, 56, 72, 76, 80 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED