Nardis · Miles Davis

72 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:24 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
2:24
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 86% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-17, 19 and 21-31, and 5 more places -- 86.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
NARDIS · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 1.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars: 71 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-72.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nardis?

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 Nardis hard to play on drums?

58 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?

72 bars, about 2:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 4 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Nardis?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 1.

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