NbHD · OneRepublic

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 3:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 13 and 15, and 19 more places -- 32.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 97 BPM
NBHD · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 67, 73, 74, 75, 76 and 2 more.

LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 97 BPM
BARS 73-77 · LANDS ON BAR 78 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 7 sections: 56 keep time, 8 are fills, 14 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-27.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFMCHS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is NbHD?

97 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 NbHD hard to play on drums?

45 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in NbHD?

2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 67, 73, 74, 75, 76 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED
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