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Naysayer · Architects

EXERCISE 7 OF 91
8-bar fill at bar 1
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0 / 91 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART G
CHORUS
PART R
PART W
PART AD
PART AG
PART AF
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
16 groovesOANADAGW+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 2
JOIN · 16
LINK · 8
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Naysayer on drums

157 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:18 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
57/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, snare through bars 13-17, silence through bars 18-22, toms through bars 23-24 and snare through bars 25-47, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 33-35, and 7 more places -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25               26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-----x-|
BD |x-x-x-------x-x-|--x---x---x-x---|
Naysayer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 39 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 71 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 -- O, AF -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part G -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part G and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 11-21 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 20-25 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Naysayer?

190 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 Naysayer hard to play on drums?

57 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 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 Naysayer?

19 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED