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Nasa · Dance Gavin Dance

EXERCISE 3 OF 56
Groove V -- Outro 2
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COUNT-IN
PART B
PART F
PART K
PART J
PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
12 groovesQJDKV+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nasa on drums

162 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 4:19 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

60 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
3/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-26, snare through bars 27-31, hi-hat through bars 32-35, snare through bars 36-39 and hi-hat through bars 40-43, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 23-25 and 72-78, and 12 more places -- 22.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    72
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x---x---x---|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x---x---x-x-|
Nasa -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 14, 26, 28, 30, 32, 33 and 13 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 -- D, Q -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 12 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 10-29 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 29-51 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Nasa?

120 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Nasa hard to play on drums?

60 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Nasa?

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 14, 26, 28, 30, 32, 33 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED