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Nausea · At The Gates

EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove C -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART G
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART I
CHORUS 4
PART G
OUTRO
BREAK
5 groovesCIGS12EFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nausea on drums

64 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:20 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
2:20
DIFFICULTY
63/100

toms through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-20, toms through bars 21-22, snare through bars 23-32, ride through bars 33-36 and snare through bars 37-40, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 9-11 and 23-25, and 3 more places -- 31% 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
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Nausea -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 12, 18, 22 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-23 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 21-37 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Nausea?

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 Nausea hard to play on drums?

63 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 2:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Nausea?

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 12, 18, 22 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 64 BARS ANALYSED