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Neal · Neal

Neal · Neal
EXERCISE 13 OF 35
15-bar fill at bar 10
37 / 80 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S3
PART B
PART S3
PART W
CHORUS
PART AH
PART S8
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesADS3WASB+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Neal on drums

80 bars of 4/4 at a walking 109 BPM, 2:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
109 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
90/100

hi-hat through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-9, snare through bars 10-21, toms through bars 22-24, snare through bars 25-28 and ride through bars 29-31, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-37 and 39-41 -- 7.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    35
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |----------------------------x---|
HH |----o-------o-------o-----------|
SD |------------x-----------x-x-----|
BD |X-------x-x-----X-----------X---|
Neal -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- AD -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AH -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AS -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-25 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part W -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part S3 and Part W -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 23-38 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Neal?

109 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Neal hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 12 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Neal?

5 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED