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Natural Thing (Live) · Ufo

EXERCISE 17 OF 28
Run D2 · Chorus 2 (bars 46-73)
116 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 28 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
5 groovesDGIBHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Natural Thing (Live) on drums

122 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-33, ride through bars 34-49, hi-hat through bars 50-73 and ride through bars 74-122.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 14-16, and 10 more places -- 32% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-o-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x---x-x-x-|
Natural Thing (Live) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 5, 33, 49, 73, 89 and 121.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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, G -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 30-49 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 46-118 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Natural Thing (Live)?

135 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 Natural Thing (Live) hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Thing (Live)?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 5, 33, 49, 73, 89 and 121.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED