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Natural Science · Rush

EXERCISE 12 OF 108
Groove F -- Part F
56 / 227 BARS COVERED
0 / 108 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART S, PART F
PART B
PART S
PART F
PART N
PART AU
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
16 groovesBKNAUS19B+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 23
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 5
JOIN · 15
LINK · 9
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Natural Science on drums

227 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 8:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
227
LENGTH
8:52
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, ride through bars 13-19, silence through bars 20-21, hi-hat through bars 22-31 and ride through bars 32-36, and 23 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 131-133, 138-140 and 151-152, and 3 more places -- 7.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    131
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
RD |--------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------x-------x-----------x-------x-------|
Natural Science -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 12, 26, 31, 36, 44, 50 and 35 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 85 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 -- BK -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BF -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 5-55 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 18-27 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part I -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 20 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Natural Science?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Natural Science hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

227 bars, about 8:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 85 exercises over 28 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Natural Science?

22 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 12, 26, 31, 36, 44, 50 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 227 BARS ANALYSED