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Navigating · Twenty One Pilots

EXERCISE 5 OF 55
Groove D
73 / 150 BARS COVERED
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CHORUS
VERSE
PART J
VERSE 2
PART M
BREAK 2
VERSE 3
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART V
VERSE 5
OUTRO 2
11 groovesFBLJM+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Navigating on drums

150 bars at 166 BPM -- fast, and 3:37 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
166 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bars 2-6, snare through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, snare through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-96 and silence through bars 97-101, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-15 and 18-20, and 9 more places -- 21% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxx-xxxxxxx-xxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Navigating -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 39, 40, 41, 49, 73, 74 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- F, B -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Verse -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through the Verse and Part A -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part A and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 31-50 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Navigating?

166 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Navigating hard to play on drums?

62 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 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Navigating?

5 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 39, 40, 41, 49, 73, 74 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED