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NecroBurst · Necroburst

NecroBurst · Necroburst
EXERCISE 4 OF 60
Groove A -- Part A
24 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
PART F
PART S3
PART S5
PART AB
CHORUS
OUTRO
13 groovesAAS5AFFA+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play NecroBurst on drums

115 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 100 BPM, 3:48 of playing on crash, ride, 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 how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
57/100

toms through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-21, silence through bars 22-35, hi-hat through bars 36-37, ride through bars 38-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-47, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 97-107 -- 11% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    98
    1...............2...............3...............
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
NecroBurst -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 12, 26, 28 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- AF, AA -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part S3 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 21-43 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is NecroBurst?

100 BPM, in 3/4, 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 NecroBurst hard to play on drums?

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 2 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 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 NecroBurst?

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 12, 26, 28 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED