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Necropolis · Manilla Road

Necropolis · Manilla Road
EXERCISE 1 OF 20
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART S3
CHORUS 2
5 groovesBS3S5AS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Necropolis on drums

174 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 3:19 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
59/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-91, snare through bars 92-103, hi-hat through bars 104-169 and silence through bars 170-174.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4-6 and 8-10, and 33 more places -- 65.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--------------x-|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--------x-----x-|
Necropolis -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 87, 89, 91, 92, 93, 95 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 46-90 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part S3 and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Necropolis?

210 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 Necropolis hard to play on drums?

59 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 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 Necropolis?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 87, 89, 91, 92, 93, 95 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED