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Nardis · Miles Davis

Nardis · Miles Davis
EXERCISE 1 OF 9
Groove B -- Outro
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0 / 9 PASSED · 62 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nardis on drums

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

58 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
72
LENGTH
2:24
DIFFICULTY
58/100

The time is kept on the ride the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-xxx-x-xxx-x-x-|
SD |------------x---|
BD |x-----x---------|
HF |----x-------x---|
Nardis -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED