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Narda (Exactly Like The Recording) · Kamikazee

EXERCISE 4 OF 23
Groove D
102 / 141 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART S7
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBES7S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Narda (Exactly Like The Recording) on drums

141 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-89, silence through bars 90-100, hi-hat through bars 101-131, snare through bars 132-136 and hi-hat through bars 137-141.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 41-46, and 6 more places -- 48% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Narda (Exactly Like The Recording) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 40, 47, 48, 72, 79, 80 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- B, E -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 20-44 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 47-114 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Narda (Exactly Like The Recording)?

120 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 Narda (Exactly Like The Recording) hard to play on drums?

53 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 31 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Narda (Exactly Like The Recording)?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 40, 47, 48, 72, 79, 80 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED