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NATION ETERNAL · Lil Darkie

EXERCISE 11 OF 35
Run A1 · Part A (bars 1-4)
38 / 62 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
PART E
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART U
OUTRO
7 groovesIWEAK+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play NATION ETERNAL on drums

62 bars, 3:27, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
72/100

hi-hat through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-9, hi-hat through bars 10-19, snare through bars 20-29, kick and crashes through bars 30-31 and snare through bars 32-33, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-17 and 22-23 -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10                               11
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|----------------x-------x-------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|o---o---o---o-------------------|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|----x-------x------xxx-x---xxx-x|
BD |x-------x--x-x--x-------x--x----|x-------x--x-x--x-------x-------|
NATION ETERNAL -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 20 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- I -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-13 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 16-22 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 18-37 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part U -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 44-60 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is NATION ETERNAL?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is NATION ETERNAL hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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 NATION ETERNAL?

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 20 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 62 BARS ANALYSED